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HYMENOPTERA. 
Ritsema, C. Eerste Supplement af de Naamlijst der Nederlandscha 
Hymenoptera Anthophila. Tijdschr. Eut. xxiii. pp. xxiv.-xxix. 
Ritsema (Tijdsohr. Ent. xxiii. pp. xcvi.-xcviii.) notices Smith’s 
“ Descriptions of New Species of Hymenoptera'^ and renames several 
species whose names are preoccupied in their respective genera, as follows: 
— Sphecodes rufiventris, Smith {nee Wesm.), renamed hagensi ; Ilalictus 
vagans^ Sm. (from Mexico, nec vagans, Sm., from Borneo), renamed H. 
errans ; II. politus, Sm. (nec Schenck), renamed H. schenchi ; Megachile 
tuherculata, Sm. (from Sierra Leone, nec tuberculata, Sm., from Borneo), 
renamed M. hituherculata (p. xcvii.) ; M. ventralis^ Sm. (from Ega, nec 
ventralis, Sm., from Amboina), renamed M. dupla\ Anthophora insularis, 
Sm. (from Vancouver’s Island, nec insularis, Sm., from Borneo), renamed 
A. solitaria. Megachile anthidioides of Smith and Radoszkovsky arc 
identical ; Cacosoma, Sm., is preoccupied in Lepidoptera, but = Rhopa- 
lictus, Sich. (p. xcviii.). 
Apis and Bomhus pierce the corolla of flowers to get at the honey, but 
i\iQ\Andrenidce do not, and although the tongue of bees is really a sucking- 
tube in the Apidee, it is not so in the Andremdce : Chambers, J. Cincinn. 
Soc. i. pp. 40-52, IGl & 162, fig. [cf. Zool. Rec. xv. Ins. p. 122]. 
Remarks on the nests of bees ; Dalla Torre, Ent. Nachr. vi. p. 143. 
Andrenides, 
SCHMIEDEKNECHT, O. Ueber einige seltene, zum Theil neue, Arten der 
Bienengattung Andrena aus Thiiringen. Ent. Nachr. vi. pp. 1-5, 
9-15, 21-27, 51-55. 
Includes a sketch of the German species belonging to the group with 
red marks on the abdomen. A. nasuta, Gir., is redescribed (p. 21). A. 
squamigera, Schenck, and allies discussed (pp. 52-54). 
Prosopis ruhicola from Epirus infested with Ilylechthrus ; S. S. 
Saunders, P. E. Soc. 1880, pp. xxv.-xxvii. 
Sphecodes scahricollis and perversus noticed ; Ritsema, Tijdschr. Ent. 
xxiii. p. xvi. 
Ilalictus fertilizing tulip ; Patton, Am. Ent. iii. p. 145. II. cylindricus 
and sexcinctus, habits and parthenogenesis ; Myiodites suhdipterus is para- 
sitic on II. sexcinctus ; Fabre, Ann. Sci. Nat. (G) ix. No. 4, pp. 27. 
Andrena lucens, Imh., recorded as new to Britain, and redescribed ; E. 
Saunders, Ent. M. M. xvii. p. 99. A. mordax, Morawitz, redescribed by 
him ; Bull. Petersb. xxvi. p. 362. Andrena sp. from Tunis noticed ; 
Gribodo, Ann. Mus. Genov, xv. p. 400. 
Dufourea minuta, St. Farg., recorded as a genus and species new to 
Britain ; S. S. Saunders, Ent. M. M. xvi. p. 181. 
Macropis lahiata, Fabr. & Schenck, discussed; Patton, Ent. M. M. xvii. 
pp. 34 & 35. 
New sjpecies : — ■ 
Prosopis flavifrons, Kirby, Ent. M. M. xvii. p. 85, Kauai. 
Sphecodes counexa, Parfitt, Tr. Devon Ass. xii, p. 533, Ido, Devonshire ; 
