HYMENOPTERA. 303 
Emery, C. Formicidarum ItaJicoriim species duos novse. Bulled, 
d. Soc. Ent. Ital. i. pp. 135-137. 
Engelhardt, H. Ueber Megachile centunculariSj F. Sitz.ber. 
Nat. Gesellsch. Isis, Dresden, 1869, p. 89. 
Forster, — . Synopsis der Familien und Gatfcungen der Ich- 
neumonen. Verliandl. d. natui’bist. Ver. preuss. Rheinl. u. 
Westphal. xxv. 1868, pp. 135-221. 
. Ueber die Galhvespen. Verbandl. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. 
in Wien, 1869, Bd. xix. pp. 327-370. 
The author, after cursorily reviewing the literature of the 
Cynipida, and promising a monograph of the species of that 
family (which he expects to print in about a twelvemonth’s time), 
gives synoptical tables of the 7 subfamilies into which he di- 
vides it, and brief references to the type species of the known 
genera, with characters for 63 new genera and 27 new species. 
Gerstacker, a. Beitiage zur naheren Kenntniss einiger 
Bienen-Gattungen. Stettiner entora. Zeitung, 1869, pp. 139- 
184, 315-367. 
This paper contains a copious and critical revision of many 
genera and species of bees, chiefly European, with rectifications 
of nomenclature, descriptions of new forms, and remarks on 
geographical distribution. 
— — . Zwei neue von Urn. Prof. Zeller in Ober-Karnthen 
gesammelte Chrij sis -Axton. Stettiner entom. Zeitung, 
1869, pp. 185 & i86. 
Giraud, J. Note sur trois Hymenopteres parasites. Annales 
Soc. Ent. France, 4® serie, tome ix. pp. 145-150. 
The parasites in question belong to the Chalcididce and /c/i- 
neumonidee. 
. Note biologique sur la Melittohia audouini. Ibid. pp. 
151-156. 
. Observations Hymenopterologiques. Ibid. pp. 469- 
488. 
Contains a new genus of Crabronid(£ {Ammoplanus) , and several 
new forms among the Tenthredinidm and pupivorous groups, in- 
cluding Hormiopterus , a new genus of Braconidee. 
Jaennicke, F. (Enumeration of the Hymenoptera of Frankfort 
and Offenbach.) Neunter Bericht des Offenbacher Vereins 
fiir Naturkunde, 1869, pp. 113-133. 
The Recorder has not been able to procure this paper, the 
German title of which is translated above, 
Kawall, J. H. Enneas Ichneumonidarum Curonise qiias de- 
scripsit novas J. H. Kawall. Bull. Soc. Nat. de Moscou, 
tome xlii. pp. 503-510. 
Y 2 
