126 Ins . 
HYMENOPTERA. 
Perez, Nat. Sicil. i. pp. 15G & 157. A. pratensis, Nyl. {—ovina, Klug) : 
habits and parasites ; Friesc, Ent. Nachr. viii. pp. 317-319. 
Macropis labiata, Fabr., flight noticed ; Enoch, Tr. E. Soc. 1882, p. xiv. 
New species :■ — 
Sphecodes schenr.Jci (= rufioentris , Schenck, nec Panz.), p. 217, (Holms, 
minutus, emarginatus (— egregius , Forst.), p. 223, dimidiatus, fasciatus, 
affinis , atratus , p. 224, mgritulus, Hag., p. 225, nitidulus , longulus ( = eclen- 
tulus , Forst.), p. 226, Yon Hagens, Deutsche E. Z. xxvi., Germany. 
Halictus distinqtus , G-cinctus , scabrosus , p. 200, constrictus , p. 202, and 
ontariensis , p. 203, Provancher, Nat. Cauad. xiii., Canada. 
Dasypoda leucoura [leucura], Itudow, Ent. Nachr. viii. p.279, Perleberg. 
Cook, A. J. How the Beo extends its Tongue. P. Am. Ass. xxx. 
pp. 276-278, woodcuts. 
The ligula is essentially a tube, but there is a slit below which can be 
opened at pleasure. Its extension is produced by the liquid secretion 
from four large glands, two in the head and two in the thorax, being 
forced into the tubular sheath of the ligula. 
Dalla Torre. K. W. v. Bemerkungen zur Gattuug Bombus , Latr., ii. 
Ber. Yer. Innsbr. xii. pp. 14-31. 
33 species are enumerated. The genus Bombus is divided into the fol- 
lowing sections, which (except Pcecilobombus ) are not characterized : — 
lihodobombus (p. 14, for alpinus , F., &c.), Melanobombus (p. 17, for 
ruderarius , Mull., &c.), Kallobombus (p. 19, for mendax , Gerst., &c.), 
Pcecilobombus (p. 23, for steveni, Itad., &c.), Thoracobombus (p. 24, for 
equestris , Drews., &c.), Leucobombus (p. 26, for terrestris, L., &c.), Pyrrho - 
bombus (p. 28, for gerstceclceri , Mor., &c.), and Cliromobombus (p. 29, for 
muscorum, L., &c.) 
B. ( Leucobombus ) terrestris varr. dalmatinus , E. Europe and W. Asia, 
and leristophi, Graz , p. 26, B. ( Cliromobombus ) muscorum varr. corsicus , 
Corsica, staudingeri , W. Siberia, and longicornis, Amur, p. 30, and B. (C.) 
variabilis , Schmied., var. aurantiacus , S. Europe, p. 31, described ; Dalla 
Torre, l. c. 
Gronen, D. Zur Naturgeschichte der Meliponiden. Zool. Gart. xxii. 
pp. 330-333 ; cf. also S. E. Z. xliii. pp. 1 10-113. 
Relates to architecture and honey, especially of Melipona fascia la, 
Latr. 
Hoffer, E. Biologische Beobachtungen an Hummeln und Schma- 
rotzer-Hummeln. MT. Yer. Steierm. 1881, pp. 68-92 ; cf. Ent. 
Nachr. viii. pp. 178-186; also H. Muller, Kosmos, xii. pp. 155-158. 
Includes remarks on the oviposition of Bornbi ; the old queen lays 
eggs which produce all sexes ; those of the so-called small $ $ produce 
only females and workers ; habits of drones ; the trumpeter, who rouses 
the nests in the morning ; mixed nests of Bombi , containing more than 
one species; and habits of Apathus ( Psithyrus ) campeslris , Panz. 
