100 Jns. 
HYMENOPTERA. 
occur X frontalis^ 01. ( ^ = fasciata^ LepO) finibriata^ F. (= cornuta 
and caiennce^ Lep.), brasilianorum, L. (= chrysoptera, Latr.), virginica, 
Dru. (= Carolina^ Lep.), collaris, Lep. ~ dejeani, Lep.), latipes, Dru. 
(= gigas, Deg.), Jlavo-rufa, Deg. (= trepida, F.), cestuans, L. (= leuco- 
thorax, Deg., = verticalis, Sm.), africana, Sm. ( $ = varipes, Sm.). The 
following notes on species wrongly identified by Taschenberg are made 
by Ritsema at pp. 897 & 898 : — X. capensis ? = torrida, $ Westw., = 
crassa, Lep. ; X. virescens, $ , = latipes, $ , Dru., and latipes, $ , = tenui- 
scapa, $ , Westw. 
Tomaschek, a. Ein Schwarm der amerikanischen Bienenart Trigona 
lineata, Lep., lebend in Europa. Zool. Anz. ii. pp. 582-587. 
The swarm appears to have been introduced accidentally in timber. 
Some details of the habits and economy of the insects are given. 
Collecting excursions in Switzerland in 1879, with notes on the species 
of Osmia captured, including a very large variety of ? 0. inermis, Zett. ; 
Frey-G essner, MT. schw. ent. Ges. v. pp, 515-540. 
Chalicodoma. Habits and nidification described, with experiments on 
the power of the insect to rediscover its nest; Fabre, Souv. Ent. pp. 275- 
319 ; cf. Lucas & Lichtenstein, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. pp. xxiii., xxiv., 
XXXV., xxxvi., cliii., cliv., clxvi. & clxvii. 
Megachile centuncularis (?). Note on nidification ; H. Lucas, Bull. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. xxxv. Nesting in a window-frame ; Johanson, SB. 
Ges. Dorp. v. p. 119. 
Ceratina albilabris, Jur., and Osmia leucomelana, Kirby (= parvula, 
Duf.), bred from dead shoots of vine ; A. Laboulbene, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
(5) ix. pp. cviii. & cix. 
Macrocera, Latr. This name has priority over Tetralonia, Spin., and 
must be retained*; Perez, Act. Soc. L. Bord. xxxiii. p. 146. 
Anthophora nigro-cinctula,'Dom^, $ described; id. 1. c. p. 139, 
Xylocopa purpurea, Cress., = vidua, Lep., = micans, Lep.; W. H. 
Patton, Canad. Ent. xi. p. 60. X. viridipennis, De Geer, ^ described ; 
F. Smith, J. L. S. xiv. p. 684. 
Apis mellijica and ligustica. Notes on parthenogenesis and hybridism, 
militating against Dzierzon’s theory ; J. Perez, Act. Soc. L. Bord. xxxii. 
p. Ixv. A. mellifica : parthenogenesis, oviposition, Dzierzon’s theory of 
the production of drones, &c., discussed ; Am. Nat. xiii. pp. 260, 261, 393 
& 394. Oviposition of queen-bee, and Dzierzon’s theory ; J. G. Fischer, 
Verh. Ver. Hamb. iv. pp. 181-191. Supposed inefficient character of the 
sting of the bee as a weapon of defence ; Nature, xix. pp. 289, 290, 340, 
& 385. Notes on apiculture in the Valley of the Saone ; P. Faivre, Mem. 
Soc. Saone-et-Loire, ii. pp. 31-39. Swarming of bees at Rouen ; Nature, 
XX. pp. 582 & 583. 
New genera and species : — 
BomboJ^ta, Patton, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. v. p. 370. Allied to 
Melecta; type, M. thoracica, Cress. (==.paGljica, Cress,). 
Synhalonia (= Macroceray Lep., nec Latr., and Tetralonia, Sm., neo 
* Macrocera, Latr., 1825, preoccupied by Mcigen in Diptera, 1803. — Ed. 
