THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Ins. 95 
Mutilla sttsjyiciosa, Sm., M. 6-maculataf Swed. (nec Radoszk., but ? = M. 
rufo-gastra, St. Farg., cf. p. 13), Scolia hoimorrhoidalis^ Fabr., Larrada 
aurulenta^ Fabr., PoUstes chinensis, Fabr. (var., p. 17), and Vesjm ger- 
manica, Fabr. 
. Descriptions of New Species of Aculeate Hymenoptera collected 
by T. Blackburn in the Sandwich Islands. J. L. S. xiv. pp, 674-685. 
The known species are enumerated, as well as new ones, and show 
chiefly North American affinities. There is, however, a slight admixture 
of Tropical American forms, .and a few wide-ranging, and even European 
species, probably introduced. Short notes on habits, localities, &c., are 
added. 
. Zoology of Rodriguez: Hymenoptera. Phil. Tr. clxviii. pp* 
534-538. 
15 species were obtained ; the new species (described in Ann. N. H. 4, 
xvii.) are redescribed here. 
. Descriptions of Hymenopterous Insects from Japan. Ent. iv. 
[1869] pp. 205-208. [Omitted from Zool. Rec. vi.j 
VOLLENIIOVEN, S. 0. Snellen VAN. Pinacogi’.apliia [Zool. Rec. xi. 
p. 444, xii. p. 384, xiv. Ins. p. 86, xv. Ins. p. 124]. Part 8, pp^ 57-63, 
pis. xxxvi.-xl. s’Gravenhage : 1879, 4to. 
The plates, as usual, consist to a great extent of details. 
Westwood, J. O. On some minute Hymenopterous Insects. Tr. L. 
Soc. Zool. (2) i. pp. 583-593, pi. Ixxiii. 
The following known species are discussed in this paper : — Wallcerella 
(Polynema) natanSy Lubb. (figs. 1 & 2, antenna and tarsus), Mymar pul- 
chellusy Curt. (fig. 3), taprobanicus, A. O. Ward (figs. 4-7) ; Prestwichia 
cequatica, Lubb., belongs not to the MymarideSy but to the EuhphideSy 
and may possibly belong to OUgosiia\ Trichogrammaj Westw., allied 
genera and species discussed. 
Aberrations of neuration in Hymenoptera ; Rudow, Ent. Nachr. v. 
pp. 209-211. 
Notes on various Hymenoptera bred from galls of Gynips hollariy Pro- 
sopis rupestris, Smith, being the most interesting ; E. A. Fitch, Ent. xii. 
pp. 113-119. 
Pompilius consohrinus, Dahlb., P. cJialyheatuSy Schiodte, Mimesa eques- 
tris, Fab., ajmd Wesm., 7iec Shuck., Oxybelus mandihulariSy Dahlb., and 
Halictiis jyauxillus, Schenk, recorded as new to Britain, and redescribed; 
E. Saunders, Ent. M. M. xv. pp. 199 & 200. 
Notes on the Hymenoptera of Yorkshire, including a list of the chief 
publications in each family ; W^ D. Roebuck, Tr. Yorksh. Nat. Union, i. 
ii. Series D, pp. 23-64. 
Notes on Hymenoptei'a in Norfolk ; J. B. Bridgman, Ent. xi. pp. 54 & 
55. 
Captures of rare and interesting Hymenoptera at Hastings in 1879 ; 
E. Saunders, Ent. M. M. xvi. pp. 97 & 98. 
