98 Ins, 
HYMENOPTERA. 
scope, and does not hesitate to set aside all other characters employed by 
former Hymenopterists ; even condescending to so futile an argument 
(speaking against punctuation, relative length of joints of antennae, &c., 
hitherto used as diagnostic aids) as that a German or Italian retains his 
nationality whether or not he be marked with pimples or small-pox, or 
have little or large ears. Nevertheless, the outlines of palpi will probably 
be found of considerable use. Thirty-six species are described. Bombus 
mendax, Gerst., = jpomorum^ Pz., var., and the $ is described, it being also 
suggested that the species is synonymous with alpinus^ L. ; there is no 
difference between B. senilis, F., and B, muscorum, L. ; B. mesomelas, 
Gerst., intercedens, Bad., = elegans, Seidl. j B. apicalis, Mor., = steweni, 
Rad. ; B. nivalis, Zett., halteatus, Dbm., trifasciatus and tunicatus, 
Smith, vorticosus, Gerst., niveatus, Kriechb., = montanus, Lep., varr, 
Aj>is mellijica. On the origin, treatment, and cure of foul brood 
(usually resulting from infection) ; R. J. Bennett, P. N. H. Soc. Glasg. 
iii. pp. 192 & 193. 
Bees destroyed by Tritoma flowers j A. R. Wallace, Nature, xvii. p. 45. 
Girdwoyn’s “ Anatomic et physiologic de Tabeille (Paris : 1875) has 
not been seen by the Recorder. 
Osmia dives, sp. n., A. Moesdry, Term, fuzetek, 1877, p. 232, Pesth. 
M electa jakovlewi, sp. n., 0. Radoszkovsky, Ilor. Eut. Ross. xii. p. 333, 
Astracan. 
Tetralonia adusta, sp. n., Moesdry, 1. c. p. 233, Central Hungary. 
Habrojpoda balassogloi, sp. n., Radoszkovsky, 1. c. p. 334, Etschmiadzin, 
Caucasus (^Anthophora gracilipes, Mor., is also a Jiabropoda'). 
Bombus moesarii, Kriechbaumer, S. E. Z. xxxviii. p. 253, S.E. Hun- 
gary; B. ussurensis, p. 196, Amur, &c., variabilis (Schmiedeknecht), 
p. 199, no locality, armeniacus, p. 202, Erivan,’ baikalensis, p. 203 (? 
Baikal), Radoszkovsky, I, c., spp, nn. 
Vespid^e. 
Saussure, H. DE. Synopsis of American Wasps. Solitary Wasps. Sm. 
Misc. Coll. No. 254. Washington ; (Deer.) 1875, 8vo, pp. xxxx., 
392, pis. i.-iv. 
This work, of which the title was given in Zool. Rec. xii, p. 388, has 
not yet been seen by the Recorder, as the Smithsonian Miscellaneous 
Collections apparently only reac.h this country when an entire volume is 
completed. From a notice in Psyche, ii. p. 44, it would appear, in spite 
of its date, not to have been published even in America until Deer. 
1876. From that notice, it would also seem to have been translated 
from the French by E. Norton, and to contain descriptions of 177 
species of America north of the Isthmus of Panama, and 136 South 
American species, besides 13 from both divisions or of doubtful origin. 
25 of the former and 12 of the latter are new, as are the following genera 
or groups: Antezumia, Metazumia, Pseudozumia, Nortonia, Pach\p']ody- 
nevus, and Bpiponus (amending Epipond). 
Vespa cincta eating a species of “ Skipper butterfly, and attracted. 
