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HYMENOPTERA. 
Wachtl, F. A. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Biologie, Systematik und 
Synonymie der Forstinsecten. ii. Die stahlblaue Fichteu- und die 
violette Kiefern-Holzwespe ( Sirex juvencus and noctilio). Centralbl. 
Foist wescn Wien, vii. pp. 352-359, woodcuts. 
Delates to 8 treat yiyas , Linn., noctilio, Fabr. (= metanocerus , Thorns.), 
and their parasites, lbalia cultellator and Rliyssa persuasoria. 
Lubbock’s Ants, Bees, and Wasps reviewed ; Romanes, Nature, xxvi. 
pp. 121-123, who questions the accuracy of some of Lubbock’s conclu- 
sions on the character of the vision of insects ; cf. also Am. Nat. xvi. 
pp. 801-807, andGraber, Biol. Centralbl. ii. pp. 109-117. 
Note on Coleopterous larvae and their Hymenopterous parasites ; Fro- 
ment, CR. Ent. Belg. xxvi. pp. cv. & cvi. 
Gradl publishes a catalogue of European Tenthredinuhe and Siricuhe , 
compiled from Andre’s work ; Ent. Nachr. viii. pp. 129-155. 
Additions and corrections to the list of Ilymenoptera of Norfolk ( Chry - 
sididee and Aculeata ) ; Bridgman, Tr. Norw. Soc. iii. pp. 3G7 & 368. 
Captures of rare British Ilymenoptera : Rothney, Ent. M. M. xviii. 
p. 262 ; at Deal in July and August, 1882 ; Saunders, op. cit. xix. pp. 86 
& 87. 
List of Ilymenoptera collected in Sicily ; Magretti, Nat. Sicil. i. 
pp. 158-162. 
List of Ilymenoptera Aculeata captured at Hermannstadt in 1881 ; 
Henrich, Verb, siebenb. Ver. xxxii. pp. 122-125. 
Apidte. 
Muller, W. H. Proterandrie der Biencn. Inaugural-Dissertation zur 
Erlangung der philosopliischen Doctorwiirde der holien philosophi- 
schen Facultat der Universitiit Jena. Leignitz : 1882. {Cf. Dim- 
mock, Psyche, iii. pp. 381 & 382.) 
In all the chief groups of bees, except the social bees, the males gene- 
rally appear before the females. 
Saunders, E. On the terminal ventral segments of the abdomen in 
Prosopis and other Anthophila. Tr. E. Soc. 1882, pp. 109-111, pi. vi. 
The seventh and eighth ventral plates are quite distinct from the geni- 
tal armature, of which they are frequently considered to form part ; 
they differ much in different species ; and figures of them in 8 species of 
Prosopis are giveu. 
SCHMIEDEKNECIIT, H. L. O. Apidoe Europoem (Die Bienen Europa’s) 
per Genera, Species, et Yarietatesdispositoe. Fasc. i.-iv. 1882, 8vo, 
pp. vi. l*-36* & 1—314, pis. i.-ix. 
The portion already published comprises a general introduction, with 
tables of families and genera, and the systematic portion relatiug to the 
genus Nomada , and the commencement of Bombas. The plates repre- 
sent structural details only. A double pagination is given under the 
genera, one referring to the book, and the second to the genus only. 
