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paper, noticed in Zool. Rec. xiv. Im. pp. 97 & 98). The plates are 
almost entirely devoted to figures of the palpi. 
SCHMIEDEKNECHT, O. Monographie der in Thiiringen vorkommenden 
Arten der Hymenopteren-Gattung Bomhus, mit einer allgemeinen 
Einleitung in dieses Genus. J en. Z. Nat. xii. pp . 303-430, pis. x. 
& xi. 
In the introductory portion of his paper, the writer treats of the 
literature, habits, geographical distribution, &c., of Bomhus. Nineteen 
species are described in the special part. The plates represent the male 
genital organs. 
On the proposed importation of humble-bees into New Zealand ; T, 
Belt, Sci. Goss. xiv. pp. 89 & 90. 
Bomhus sylvarum. Its nests so numerous as to interfere with mowing ; 
T. H. Hart, Ent. xi. pp. 256 & 257. 
Muller, F. Die Koniginnen der Meliponen. Kosmos, iii. pp. 228-231. 
The females of several species of Melipona^ of which the drones and 
workers differ widely, resemble each other closely. The genera Melipona 
and Trigona are scarcely separable. 
Girard, M. Les Abeilles, organes et fonctions, education et produits. 
Paris : 1878, 12mo, 1 col. pi. & woodcuts. 
On the parthenogenesis of bees in relation to the production of drones ; 
J. Perez & A. Sanson, C. R. Ixxxvii. pp. 408 & 659, Ann. N. H. (5) ii. ^ 
pp. 428 & 429, 497 & 498. 
Remarks on the reproduction of hive-bees, &c.; M. Girard & J. Perez, 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) viii. pp. clxi. & clxii., cxlix. & cl., & clxxi. 
On hybrid bees; J. Perez & M. Girard ; 0. R. Ixxxvii. pp. 408-410, 
755 & 756. 
Behaviour of bees in a sudden shower ; W. H. Penning, Sci. Goss, xiii 
p. 237. Their fondness for paint and smoke ; Smith & Warner, op. cit. 
p. 189, & xiv. p. 213. Attracted by scented soap; H. Skeete, Scot. Nat. 
iv. p. 199. 
Great healing properties said to be possessed by the sting of the bee ; 
Augsburg. Abendzeitung, quoted in Ent. Nachr. iv. p. 240. 
R. J. Bennett gives his experience of bee-keeping in Argyleshire 
during 1877 ; P. Glasg. Soc. iii. pp. 256 & 257. 
Directions for acclimatising foreign races of bees ; G. de Layens, Bull. 
Soc. d’Acclim. (3) v. pp. 217-220. 
Ccelioxioides, g. n., E. T. Cresson, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. vii. p. 94. Form 
of a narrow attenuated Ccslioccys ; apex of abdomen stylated as in Osyris ; 
neuration of fore wings very'abnormal. Type, C. punctipennis^ sp. n., 1. c., 
Mexico (neuration figured). 
New species : — 
Panurgus chalyhcsus, California, and maurus^ Colorado, p. 61, regularise 
California, andrenoides, Colorado, Texas, nigrifrons, Texas, and margi- 
