124 Ins. 
HYMENOPTERA. 
note ed Osservazioni. Bull. Ent. Ital. x. pp. 9-33, 91-112, 
161-178. 
Includes parasites (chiefly Hymenopterous) on Lepidoptera^ Coleoptera^ 
Eymenoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera, and Acari. 
Rudow, F. Hymenopterologische Mittheilungen. Z. ges. Naturw. (3) 
iii. pp. 231-244. 
A rambling paper, including the description of a new Lihellula [!]. 
The notes relating to Hymenoptera are as follows : Cimbex fagi, Zadd. 
(transformations described), = C. betuloi, Zadd., var. ; C. sorhi and 
betuletiy small varr., noticed ; Nematus valisnierii, Hart, redescribed ; 
Stizus tridens redescribed ; Bemhex Integra, Fabr., redescribed ; notes on 
gall-insects, &c. 
Saunders, E. Remarks on the hairs of some of our British Hymenoptera. 
Tr. E. Soc. 1878, pp. 169-172, pi. vi. 
The writer describes the varieties of structure which occur in various 
British Bees. He believes that plumose or branched hairs only occur in 
the Anthophila, and are designed for collecting pollen, but has not yet 
found them to be of any value in classification. 
Smith, F. List of new Hymenoptera obtained by 0. Lemborg, east of 
Moulmein, Tenasserim Province, during the months of December, 
1876, and January, March, and April, 1877, with descriptions of new 
species. J. A. S. B. xlvii. 2, pp. 107 -109. 
21 species, 4 new. 
. Descriptions of new species of Hymenopterous Insects from New 
Zealand, collected by Prof. Hutton, at Otago. Tr. E. Soc. 1878,pp. 1-7. 
Thomson, C. G. Hymenoptera Scandinaviae. Tom. iii. {Vespa, SpJiex, 
et Mutilla, Linn.), pp. 296 ; tom. iv. pp. 259, and tom. v. pp. 307 
(Pteromahis, Swed.). Lund ; 1874, 1876, and 1878, 8vo. [For vol. iv. 
pp. 1-192, inclusive, cf. Zool. Rec. xii. (1875) p, 397 el seq.~\ 
The Swedish species are treated in the same comprehensive manner as 
before ; but there appear to be frequent unnecessary changes of specific 
names, and the extent to which “ subgenera are employed is inordi- 
nately large. Vol. v. contains plate of details. 
VOLLENHOVEN, S. 0. Snellen VAN. Pinacographia [Zool. Rec. xi. 
p. 444, xii. p. 384, xiv. Ins. p. 96]. Part 6, pp. 41-48, pis. xxvi.-xxx.; 
part 7, pp. 49-56, pis. xxxi.-xxxv. s’Gravenhage : 1878, 4to. 
. Esp^ces nouvelles ou peu connues d’Hym^nopteres Ter^brants. 
Tijdschr. Ent. xxi. pp. 153-177, pis. ix.-xi. 
J. de Bellesme remai'ks on the buzzing of insects. They produce a 
sharp and grave sound, the latter by vibrations of the wings during 
flight, the former when at rest by agitation of the muscles of the thorax. 
Bull. Sci. Dep. Nord, (2) i. p. 312 [cf. also anted, p. 8]. 
Y. K. Brandt publishes a paper on the nervous system of the Hymen- 
optera ; Troudy Ent. Ross. ix. pp. 181-216, woodcuts. It is entirely in 
Russian. 
