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isolated. He reproduces Smith’s figures of palpi and wing, and observes that 
the character aflbrded by the first recurrent nervure of Hahropoda is not con- 
stant, as it occui'S also in certain Mexican Anthophorce. The sexes of II. 
zonatuluy ezonata^ and f estiva (with hind legs of the two last spp.) are figured 
by him, pi. 2. 
Anthophora. Hours, 1. c., tabulates the known species of this genus, by 
$ characters, pp. 3G-4G ; by cJ, pp. 4G-6G. To A, zonala (Linn.) the author 
appears to agree with Sichel in rererriug as vars. the following describ(id 
species : — A, cincta and cingulata (Fab.), suhccerulea (Lep.) and pulckra (Sm.), 
and also the following insects, apparently described for the first time, viz. : — 
A. atroccerulea^ p. 00, and analls, p. 61 (Sichel), A. Jlammeozonata, p. 61 
(Hours), and A. viligans, p. 62 (Smith, but which was published in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. 1861). To A. 4t-fasciata (Villa) in like maimer are atlributed the 
following described species : — A. maderce (Sichel), domingensis (Lep. j with 
which maadicornis and melaleuca^ Lep., are stated on Sichel ’e authority to 
be identical), mucorea^ sociu, farinosa, ulternans, and incana (= nivea, Lep.), 
Klug, and eonfusa (Smith), and also the following apparently previously un- 
described insects : — A. albescens (Hours), p. 66, and A. semqndverosa (Sich.), 
p. 68, with some unnamed subvarieties. To A. albigena (Lep. j binotata, 
Lep., cJ) are attributed A. niveocinta (Smith ; with which A. calenSy Lep., is 
stated to be identical) and A. nificornis, p. 77, and albida, p. 78 (Sichel), 
apparently not before described, with Megilla ^.-cincta and fasciata (Fab.) and 
unnamed subvars. In his preface Hours states that albigena was connected 
by Sichel A- fasciata, but that he himself considers them distinct, and that 
he will note other instances of improper suppression of species in his Mono- 
graph. There is, however, no further indication of his diflering from Sichel’s 
synthetical views in this work, beyond the fact of his describing as varieties 
insects which it may be open to him to term species, if Sichel’s opinions, as 
interpreted by himself, be explicitly repudiated by him at any future time. 
To A. rujipes (Lep.) the A. savignyi and rufa of the same author are referred 
as varieties. A. ceruginosa (Smith) is numbered as a species and referred to 
specifically as a var. Megilla sesqaicincta and vidua (Klug) = A. bicincta 
(Lep.)j Xenoglossa fulva (Smith) is renamed A. holopyrrha (Sichel) 5 A. 
nigrofulva (Lep.) and ? caliginosa (Ji\\\^)~ferriiyinea (Lep.), var. j a var. of 
A. parietina (F.) is described and named fidvocinerca (p. 100), Megilla plagiata 
(111.) and M. villosa (Herr. Sch.) being also considered vars. of that species ; 
A. dubia (Smith nec Eversm.) is renamed smithii (Sichel), p. 103 ; A. tri- 
strigata (Spin.) = chiliensis (Spin.), p. 136 j A. borealis (Morawitz) = 
A-macalata (Panz.) var., p. 46 j Sichel’s table of vars. of A. pilipes (F.) is 
given at pp. 165-6 j vars. of A. personata (111.) are described and named 
(euris. Hours, apparently not before published), pp. 165-8 ; A. A-cincta (Evers.) 
criniqjes (Smith) = senescens (Lep.),p. 174 j A. liturata ^ (Lep.) = atro- 
alba (Lep.), p. 182. 
Anthophora nidulans (Fab.) is desciubed by Radoszkowslvy (Horae Soc. 
Ent. Ross. vi. p. 98), and, according to him, includes as varieties A. quudri- 
fasciata (Vill.), orianensis [sic] (St. Fa.vg.), farinosa (Klug), garrxda (Germ.), 
soda and alternans (Klug), and nana (Eversm.). 
Saropoda. Hours (/. c. p. 195) recharacterizes this genus, and gives Sichel’s 
fresh description of S. bimacidata (Panz.), I..epelletier’3 being considered 
defective. Ho considers >S^./w/i;a (Eversm.) probably not a Saropoda. 
