no Ins. 
IJYMENOPTERA. 
Aphcenogaster barhar a Varieties from Tunis discussed ; Emery, 
Ann. Mus. Genov, xv. pp. 392-397. 
Dorylus helvolus^ Linn. Supposed $ described and figured ; Trimen, 
P. E. Soc. 1880, pp. xxiv. & xxv. fig.; also pp. xxxiii. & xxxiv. 
New species : — 
Camponotus injflatus, Lubbock, J. L, S. xv. p. 18G, Adelaide J(a new 
species of honey-ant) ; C. fedtschenkoi and interjectus, Mayr, Tijdschr. 
Ent. xxiii. pp. 23 & 24, Turkistan. 
Formica aberrans, id. 1. c. p. 27, Turkistan. 
Cataylyphis pallida^ id. 1. c. p. 28, Turkistan. 
Ischnomyrmex rhaphidiiceps, id. 1. c. p. 31, Turkistan. 
Monomorium barhatulum, id. /. c. p. 36, Turkistan. 
Or emastog aster subdentata^ id. 1. c. p. 39, Turkistan. 
Aphcenogaster (?) schaufussi, Forel, Ent. Nachr. vi. p. 465, Spain. 
CHliYSIDlD.E. 
Abeille de Perkin, E. Synopsis critique et synonymiquo des Ohry- 
sides de France. Ann. Soc. L. Lyon, xxxvi. pp. 1-107, pis. i. & ii. 
(details). 
Not restricted to French species only. The introduction contains notes 
on habits, collecting, &c. Tables of genera and species are given, and 
several new species are described. The following known species are 
specially noticed : — Homalus ccertdeus, Dahlb., and spina^ Dahlb. (nec 
Lep.), renamed viridiventris and superhus respectively, p. 22 ; Holo- 
pyga micans, Dahlb. {nec Klug), renamed cicatrix^ p. 28 ; Chrysis cyano- 
2>yg(i, var. domimda, from Toulon, noticed, p. 54 ; C. analis, (jhevr. (nec 
Spin.), renamed chevrieri, p. 66 ; C. cerastes and igniventris, Ab., are sexes, 
p. 71 ; C. ignita, varr. rutiliventris, and longula noticed, p. 74, unicoloi\ 
Luc. (nec Dahlb.), renamed lucasi, p. 86 ; C. bicolor ^ Lep., var. gribodoi, 
noticed, p. 93. 
Chrysis. Table of species belonging to Dahlbom’s Phalanx i. (Chry- 
sides ano integerrimo) ; Schmiedeknecht, Ent. Nachr. vi. pp. 195-197. 
Hedychridium, g. n., Perrin, 1. c. p. 35. Allied to Hedychrum ; hooks 
of tarsi with a perpendicular hook near their middle, and ending in a 
single [claw. To contain II. anale, incrassatum, alienum, and integrum, 
Dahlb., clavipes, Ev., roseum, Possi (and var. femoratum, Dahlb.), naniim, 
Chevr., minutum, Lep. (with var. cormceifm,. Dahlb., and varr. mi. homceo- 
pathicum, infans, and reticidatum') ; add II. gratiosum and sculpturatum, 
spp. nn., 1. c. pp. 37 & 39, France. 
Homalus scidpticollis , France, and appendicinus, Ukraine, spp. nn., id. 
1. c. pp. 21 & 22. 
Ilolopyga caudata, Bone, defiexa, Egypt, miranda, Corsica, Spain, and 
bifrons, Bone, spp. nn., id. 1. c. pp. 28-31. 
Hedychrum longicolle, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 34, France, Italy. 
Chrysis sicula, Sicily, and fenestrata, France (? = bidentata, L., varr.), 
p. 51, mulsanti, S. France, p. 58, mcndax, Lambessa, p. 59, pustidosa, S. 
France, p. 60, sinuosiventris, Dours (P), p. 62, hydropica, Marseilles, p. 65, 
