VESriDiEj CRABR0NID7E. 
Ins. 105 
Polistes (?) attacking and destroying spiders; Green, Am. Ent. iii. 
p. 176. Ditto in S. Africa; Sci. Goss. xvi. pp. 224 & 280. P.fuscus 
mimicked by Trochiliuni polistiforme ; Packard, Am. Nat. xiv. p. 600. 
Odynerus. Habits and parasites noticed ; Riley, Am. Ent. iii. p. 154, 
figs. 59 & 60. 0. parietinum and parietum are perfectly distinct ; Fitch, 
Ent. xhi. pp. 19 & 20, woodcuts. 
Vespa. Extraordinary abundance of wasps in Kirkcudbright in 1880; 
Service, Ent. xiii. pp. 223 & 224. On their intelligence ; Newall, Nature, 
xxi. p. 494. 
Odynerus extraneus and hlachhurni (= ruhritinctuSf $ ^ Smith), spp. nn,, 
Kirby, Ent. M. M. xvii. pp. 86 & 87, Kauai. 
Crabronid^. 
Kohl, F. F. Die Raubwespen TiroVs nach ihrer horizontalen und verti- 
calen Verbreitung, mit einem Anhange biologischer und kritischer 
Notizen. Z. Ferd. (3) xxiv. pp. 97-242. 
Includes lengthy notices of the varieties of most of the known species, 
and descriptions of several new ones. 
Larrada semirufa^ Sphex ichneumonea, Chlorion cccruleum, Larra tarsata^ 
and also ants, said to be destructive to locusts in America ; 1st Rep. 
Ent. Comm, on Rocky Mountain Locust, pp. 317-319 & 334, figs. 55-58; 
2nd Rep. pp. 270 & 271. 
Fompilides. 
Pompilus minutuhiSy Dahlb. (= neglectus^ Dahlb. (?) = cellularis, 
Thoms.), P. wesmaeli, Thoms.’(woodcuts), Prionocnemis parvulus, Dahlb. 
(woodcut), and P. pusillus^ Schiodte, recorded as new to Britain, and 
redescribed ; E. Saunders, Ent. M. M. xvii. pp. 97-99. P. pectinipes, 
auct., discussed, and $ described; Kohl, Z. Ferd. (3) xxiv. pp. 239-241. 
P. elegans^ Smith, nec Cress., renamed P. smitlii ; Ritsema, Tijdschr. Ent. 
xxiii. p. xcviii. 
Prionocnemis hrasiliensis, Tasch., ? = Pompilus tuber cidatus. Guer. ; P. 
hirticepSy Spin., is also noticed ; Taschenberg, Z. ges. Nat. (3) v. pp. 769 
& 770. 
Ceropales tricolor , sp. n., Arribalzaga, Nat. Arg. i. [1878], p. 322, Buenos 
Aires. 
Pompilus lateritius, p. 772, tomentosus, p. 773, seminiger, Abyssinia, and 
anthracinus, Peru, p. 774, Taschenberg, 1. c., spp. nn. 
Agenia militarise sp. n., Arribalzaga, 1. c. p. 324, Buenos Aires. 
Prionocnemis tricolore Peru, violascenSe W. Africa, and hicolory Peru, 
Taschenberg, 1. c. pp. 770-772 ; P. pampeanuSe Arribalzaga,/. c. p. 324, 
Buenos Aires : spp. nn. 
Ferreola chalybeae sp. n., Taschenberg, 1. c. p. 775, W. Africa. 
Sphegidos. 
Ammophila mocsariie Friv. (= rlmticae Kohl). $ described ; Kohl, 
Z. Ferd. (3) xxiv. p. 237. 
