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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Bomhus distinguendus, Morawi tz, 1. c. p. 32 (c5' = B. fragrans, Nyl.), 
Russia. 
Trigona mellicolor, Packard, 1. c. p. 60, Brazil. 
Vespidas. 
Odynenis nasidens (Latr.). A variety of this species is described by 
Packard, 1. q. p. 60. 
Smith (Trans, Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd series, vol. iii. p. 310) remarks on the 
form of the S of his Paragia vespiformis, and figures that sex (pi. 6. fig. 2). 
Smith quotes a letter from E. 0. Wilson describing the nidification of 
Paragia tricolor near Adelaide, Australia (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 17). 
Nortonia, g. n., De Saussure, Stettiner entom. Zeitung, 1869, p. 53, Cha- 
racters of Eumenes ; but the petiole is funnel-shaped. Resembles also Monte- 
zumia. Sp. N. amalice^ sp. n., ibid,, Rockhampton, Australia. 
New species : — 
Melipona molesta, Pula, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. vol. iv. p. 295, 
San Luis, Argentine Republic. 
Odynerus alhocinctus, Puls, 1. c., Mendoza, Argentine Republic j O. dietri- 
chianusj De Saussure, 1. c. p. 54, Rockhampton, Australia. 
PterocMlus alhopictus, Kriechb. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xix. p. 699, Syra. 
Moniczumia andcus [sic], Packard, 1. c. p. 60, Quito. 
Paragia excellcns, Smith, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd series, vol. iii. p. 309 ; 
and 1\ sohri/ia, Smith, ibid,, Australia. 
Rhynchium magnijicumy Smith, 1. c. p. 310, Australia. 
Eumenes ovalauensis, De Saussure, 1. c. p. 53, Oval an, Fiji Islands. 
Alastor graeffei, De Saussure, 1. c. p. 55, Ovalau. 
POMPILIDAS. 
Pepsis, Priocnemis, and Pompilus. Taschenberg (Zeitschr. gesamm. Nat. 
Sachs, u. Thiiring. xxxiv. 1869, pp. 26 et seq.) recharacterizes these genera, 
and redescribos such of the known species as exist in the Museums of Halle 
University and Berlin, with some new species. He gives the following ob- 
servations on synonymy ; — Pepsis stellata (Fab.) $ =auripennis (Deg.) J ; 
Priocnemis capensis (F.) = seyera (Drury) j DoUchurus ater (Latr.) = cor- 
niculus (Spin.). 
New species ; — 
DoUchurus. Smith (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd series, vol. iii.) describes 
the following new species : — D. carhonarius, p. 303, Australia j D. igyiitus, 
p. 304, Port Natal j D. taprohance, ibid., Ceylon. 
Pepsis. Taschenberg, 1. c., describes the following species : — P. prcesidi- 
alisy p. 27, Parana j apicatUy Lagoa Santa, discolor y Congonh, and cupripennisy 
Rio de Janeiro, p. 28; aciculatUy Rio de Janeiro, Banda Oriental, p. 29; 
gracillimay Columbia, and defecta, Rio Grande, p. 30. 
Pepsis quitonensisy Packard, 1. c. p. 61, (^uito ; P. purpuripes and P. vini- 
pennisy Packard, ibid., Brazil. 
Priocnemis, Tasclienberg, 1. c., describes the following species : — P. hreoi- 
pennisy p, 32, Lagoa Santa; cojicolor, Java, Padang, and duhius, Lagoa Santa, 
