I’HE GENERAL SUBJECT, APIDJE. 
Ins. 97 
Hy^res and Venice. Species on the wing in mid-winter ; Lichtenstein, 
CR. Ent. Bolg. XX. p. xiv. 
Turkestan. The Formic, idm observed by the late A. Fedchenko in his 
Central Asian journey are described by Mayr, and the Chrysidid(B,, Mutil- 
lidcB. and Crahronidce by Radoszkovsky, in A. Fedchenko’s “ Puteshestvie 
V Turkestan ” [Travels in Turkestan]; Part 14, Section ii. Zoogeogra- 
phicheskia Izledovania. Division 5. These papers form part of vol. xxvi. 
of Izv. Liub. Est. Antr. Etno. (= Nachr. Ges. Mosc.), and will bo noticed 
infra. 
North America. Hymenoptera of Kirby’s “Fauna Boreali- Ameri- 
cana,” described in continuation of a compiled account of the Insects of 
the northern parts of British America ; 0. J. S. Bethune, Canad. Ent. ix. 
pp. 148-156. 
Spitzbergen. Description of species collected by Rev. A. E. Eaton; 
T. A. Marshall, Ent. M. M. xiii. p. 241. 
APIDiE. 
Andrenides, 
Sphecodes. V. von Hagens, Ent. Nachr. iii. pp. 53-55, records his 
opinions as to the synonymy, &c., of species known to him. Cf. Schenck, 
tom. cit. p. 70. 
Andrena varians, K. (varians, Rossi, = Chalicodoma muraria, F.), and 
its allies and different forms ; Schenck, tom. cit. pp. 120-123. 
Colletes punctatus^ sp. n., A. Mocsary, Term, fiizetek, 1877, p. 231, 
Central Hungary. 
Pro.wpiff scutaln^ sp. n., J. Lichtenstein, Bull. Soo. Ent.Fr. (5) vii. p. cii., 
Montpellier (coll construction by $ as in Colletes) ; also described as now, 
id. Ent. Nachr. iii. p. 141. 
Apides. 
Rhophites 5-spinosus in England ; F. Smith, P. E. Soc. 1877, p. xxxii. 
Megachile centrnnculus, Smith. On its habits near Quebec ; L. Pro- 
vancher, Nat. Canad. ix. pp. 23 & 95. 
Anthophora intermedia^ Lep., and cestivalis,, Pz., differentiated ; Schenck, 
Ent. Nachr. iii. pp. 8 & 56. A. nidulans, Lep.; on its northward exten- 
sion near Mayence ; id. 1. c. p. 123. 
Megilla {Anthophora) garrula, Rossi, nidulans and alhigena,Jjap., from 
Bozen and the north side of the Garda Lake, differentiated, with obser- 
vations on allied species and their colour varieties ; Kriechbaumer, Ent. 
Nachr. iii. pp. 87-92. 
Osmia ccementaria. Account of economy by A. Mocs/iry, Term, fiizetek, 
1877, p. 23. List of C^rys^V7^W^c parasitic upon Osmia and other genera, 
as supplement to this ; 1. c. p. 92. 
Bomhus. O. Radoszkovsky, Bull. Mosc. Hi. pt. 2, pp. 169-219, pis. ii. a 
& ii. h, has published an essay on a new method for facilitating the deter- 
mination of species belonging to this genus, consisting of an algebraic 
formula of the length of the palpi, compared with a numerical standard 
of the length of the wings. The author relies on the compound micro- 
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