104 Ins, 
HYMENOPTEUA. 
Notes on Humble Bees of Quebec (Bomhus 10 spp., A]}athus 2 spp.) ; 
Bowles, Hep. E. Soc. Ont. 1879, pp. 31-33. 
Wren’s nest appropriated by Bombi (?) ; Candler, Sci. Goss. xvi. p. 142. 
Apis mellifica will kill and eat moths captured by flowers; it also 
attacks drones with its mandibles ; this or some other honey-bee also 
sucks the juices from raw meat in Brazil : Packard & others, Am. Nat. 
xiv. pp. 48-50 & 3G3. Torpor produced by sudden change of tempera- 
ture ; Swinton, Ent. M. M. xvi. p. 278. Destructive to fruit ; Am. Ent. 
iii. pp. 55, 176 & 177. On American and Italian Bees, p. 195. Bees 
attracted by artiflcial flowers, 1. c. p. 74, and Sci. Goss. xvi. p. 17. Sting 
described ; Briant, Sci. Goss. xvi. pp. 31-34, woodcuts. On the formation 
of the combs ; Wighton, op. cit. p. 127. Queen attacked by parasites 
(Braula cwca) ; Horsnaill, o]). clt. p. 277. Carnivorous Bees, 1. c. p. 65. 
Experiments on Bees by Erlenmayer and Planta-Beicheiuiu appear to 
indicate that their food should not bo highly nitrogenous, and that bccs’- 
wax is formed of non-nitrogenous substances, especially sugar ; Bien. 
Centr. 1880, pp. 191-193; J. Chem. Soc. (Abstr.) xxxviii. pp. 725 & 726; 
J. R. Micr. Soc. iii. pp. 937 & 938. 
New species : — 
Panurgus cavannce, Gribodo, Bull. Ent. Ital., Resoconti, 1880, p. 8, 
Calabria. 
Panurginus nigrijjes, Morawitz, Bull. Petersb. xxvi. p. 357, Kansu, China. 
Epimethea nana, id. 1. c., Ordoss, China. 
Bystropha rujiventris, id. 1. c. p. 356, Krasnowodsk. 
Osmia mongolica, S.E. Mongolia, p. 382, maculata, Kulja, p. 383, 
excisa, Ordoss, denudata, N.W. Mongolia, p. 385, and brevicornis, Krasno- 
wodsk, p. 386, id. 1. c. 
Megachile nasica and dohrandti, Amu Daria, p. 378, and genulis, Thiau- 
Shau, p. 380, id. 1. c. 
Antlddium caspicum, id. 1. c. p. 375, Krasnowodsk. 
Nomada thoracica, id. 1. c. p. 369, S.E. Mongolia. 
Ccelioxys mielbergi, id. 1. c. p. 373, Amu Daria. 
Stelis aculeata, id. 1. c. p. 374, N.W. Mongolia. 
Tetralonia turcomannica^ id. 1. c. p. 354, Krasnowodsk. 
CamptoiKeum rufiventre, id. 1. c. p. 355, Turkistan. 
Anthophora siniplieipes^ p. 344, acutilabris, Thian-Shan, p. 346, asiatica, 
Krasnowodsk, p. 347, prshewalsMi, Thian-Shan, p. 348, christoji, Kras- 
nowodsk, p. 3^0,2nlosa, Thian-Shan, p. 351, and crubeseens, Krasnowodsk, 
p. 353, id. 1. c. 
Xylocopa taberculiceps, Cape of Good Hope, assimilis, Sumbawa, and 
inCompleta, Java, Sumatra, Ritsema, Notes Leyd. Mus. ii. pp. 220-222. 
Bornbus rcgeli, Kulja, p. 337, lugiLbris, p. 339, prshewalsMi, p. 342, and 
rufo-cinctus, China (Kansu, &c.), p. 343, Morawitz, 1. c. 
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Eumencs fraternus, Say, noticed and figured ; Am, Ent. iii, p. 180, 
fig. 82. 
