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G. Schoch argues that the Hynienoptera are the highest insects ; MT. 
schw. ent. Ges. v. pp. 291-293. 
Notes on new and rare Hymenoptera captured during the year 1877 ; 
F. Smith, Ent. xi. pp. 16-18. 
C. W. Dale (History of Glanville’s Wootton {anted, p. 14], pp. 40-79) 
enumerates 631 of the 4118 British species of Hymenoptera as found in 
his district. No new species are described. 
K. V. Dalla Torre has completed his Catalogue of the Apidm of 
Tyrol ; Z. Ferdinand (3), Heft 21, pp. 161-196. The following varieties are 
noticed: — Anthophora albigena, Lep., var. nigrithorax, A. parietina, 
Fabr., var. schenchi, p. 162, Tetralonia salicarice, Lep., vars. alhiclypeata 
and flaviclypeata^ p. 163, Nomada sexcincta, Panz., var. mixta, p. 165, 
Panurgus calcaratm. Scop., var. nigricornis, p. 169, Halictus leucozonius, 
K., var. nigritihialis, p. 178, H. tetrazonius, Klug, var. nitens, p. 179, H. 
cylindricus, Fabr., var. rhodostoma, p. 180, H. vulpinus, Nyl., var. nigri. 
clypeata, p. 181, H. smeathmanellus, K., var. alpigena, p. 183, H. morio, 
Fabr., var. basalis, p. 184, Sphecodes fuscipennis, var. basalts, p. 185, 
Prosopis annulata, L., var. tristis, p. 186, P. hyalinata, Sm., var. lugubris, 
p. 187, and Anthidium manicatum, L., var. nigrithorax, p. 193. 
Additions to the fauna of Mecklenburg ( Tenthredinidce and Uroceridm ) ; 
R. Rudow, Arch. Ver. Mecklenb. xxxi. pp. 113-115. 
Captures of Hymenoptera in the Upper Engadine ; C. Giebel, Z. ges. 
Naturw. (3) ii. p. 214. 
List of Hymenoptera occurring in Gudbrandsdal and Dovref jeld ; W. 
M. Sch4>yen, Nyt. Mag. Vidensk. xxiv. pp. 211-217 (119 species). 
Additions to list of Hungarian Hymenoptera ; A. Mocsdry & J. Fri- 
valdszky, Term, kozlem. xiii. pp. 166-172, 347-363. 
List of Hymenoptera occurring in the provinces of Bihar and Hajdu, 
in Hungary ; A. Mocs4ry, op. cit. xiv. pp. 39-52. 
Captures in Northern Hungary ; id. 1. c. pp. 246-285. 
List of a few Hymenoptera captured in Transcaucasia; O. Schneider, 
Beitr. Kaukasuslander {anted, p. 9], pp. 91-93. 
List of Hymenoptera captured during the expeditions to Western Yunnan; 
F. Moore, Anderson’s Researches, pp, 916-919. The following species are 
redescribed and figured : — Vespa bellona, Smith, p. 917, fig. 9, Bombus im- 
petuosus, Smith, fig. 11, and Apis laboriosa, Smith, fig. 10, p. 918, pi. Ixxxi. 
C. J. S. Bethune continues his reprint of descriptions of Hymenoptera 
from Kirby’s “ Fauna Boreali- Americana ; ” Canad. Ent. x. pp. 116-118. 
Captures of Hymenoptera in Antigua and Martinique ; T. A. Marshall, 
P. E. Soc. 1878, pp. xxxi.-xxxiii. 
Woodcuts of fossil Hymenoptera from Heer ; Sci. Goss. xiii. p, 84. 
S. H. Scudder notices the following fossil Hymenoptera from the Green 
River shales : — Lasius torrens (sp. n.), p. 747, Myrmica, sp., and Bracon 
laminarum (sp. n.), p. 748, and Decatoma antiqua (sp. n.), p. 749 ; Bull. 
U. S. Geol. Surv. iv. 
Apid^. 
Andrenides. 
Halictus quadricinctus, Fabr., and Sphecodes gibbus, L. These live 
