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Smith and illustrated with outline figures of the posterior legs. 
The following is a note of the described species 
1. Apis dorsata, Fab., India;=^. nigripennis (Latr.)? Vars. A hicolor 
(King), zonata (Gu^r.), and testacea (Smith). 
2. Apis zonata (Smith), Celebes, =.4. dorsata (Gerst.). 
3. Ains mellijica (Lin.). Vars. A. ligustica (^^m.),fasciata (Latr.), cerifera 
(Scop.). 
4. Apis adansonii (Latr.), Africa. Vars. A. scutellata (St. Farg.), nigritarum 
(St. Farg.), caffra (St. Farg.), unicolor (Latr.) ? (^=mellifica, var., Gerst.). 
5. Apis indica (Fab.). Vars. A. peronii (Latr.), delessertii {Gw€Y.\perottetii 
(Gu^r.), socialis (Latr.), dorsata (St. Farg.). 
C. Apis nigrocincta (Smith), Celebes { = A. indica, var. Gerst.). 
7. Apisjiorea (Fab.), India, &c. = A. andriniiformis, ^,A.lohata, 
Smith, d ) A- indica, Latr. ^ ). 
Gerstficlter records the fecundation of 2 Egyptian Honey-Bees by German 
Drones, and describes the products, which he regards as favourable to the 
theory of the specific identity of the two races, and also to the doctrine of 
the parthenogenesis of the drones. Sitzungsber. Ges. nat. Freunde Berl. 
1865 ; Muller’s Archiv, 1865, pp. 762-764. 
Siebold’s paper on hermaphrodite Bees is translated into French by 
Blanchard, Ann. Sci. Nat. s^r. 5. tome iii. pp. 197-206, and noticed by 
Guerin, Rev. et Mag. de J^ool. 1864, p. 63. 
Lucas records the occurrence, in a young Queen Bee, of a complete coales-«- 
cence of the compound eyes. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1865, p. xlix. 
Louclcart (Amtl. Bor. 30 Vcrsamml. deutsch. Naturf. in Giessen, pp. 173- 
175) describes the characters of some gynandromorphous Bees from Engster’s 
hives in Constance. These Bees have the 2 characters of workers, and are 
to be regarded as workers which have acquired a certain number of male cha- 
racters. He ascribes their production to the insufficient impregnation of the 
ova. 
Paris publishes the details of a case in which death was supposed to have 
been caused in five days by the sting of a bee. He is not inclined to con- 
sider the case proved. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1865, pp. xi-xii. 
The production of honey in Corsica is described in an extract from the 
* Times,’ read by Pascoe to the Entomological Society (Proc. 1865, p. 90). 
Guerin-Meneville cites a paper by Lukomski in G_>’Abeille M<5dicale,’ on the 
curative effects of the stings of bees. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1864, p. 367. 
Lamprocolletes cladocerus and Chalicodoma ccelocera (Smith) are described 
and figured by Smith on account of tlieir peculiarlj^ constructed antennce. 
Ent. Trans. 3rd ser. ii. pp. 397 h 399, pi. 21. figs. 3 & 7. 
On the present scarcity of insects of this family in Britain, see Smith, Ent. 
Annual, 1866, pp. 134-135. 
New genus and species : — 
Thaumatosoma, g. n., Smith, Ent. Trans. 3rd ser. ii. p. 394. Allied to 
but with the anteniice long, slender, and terminated by a 2-jointed 
club. Sp. T. duhoidaii. Smith, l.c. p. 395, pi. 21. fig. 1, from Swan River. 
See also Ent. M. Mag. ii. p. 4. 
