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[HoFFER, E.] Boschreibung oinos instructiveu Nesfcos von Bombus 
confususy Schenck. L. c. pp. 93-105, plate. 
The sexes and their variations are fully described. 
. Die Hummeln Steiermarks. Lebensgeschichte und Beschreibung 
derselben. JB. steierm. Landes-Oberrealschule zu Graz (also 
separate) pp. 92, 1 plain and 2 coloured pis. ; abstract, Ent. Nachr. 
viii. pp. 253-2G0 ; cf. also PI. Midler, Kosmos, xii. pp. 155-158. 
. Verzeichniss der in der Umgebung von Graz vorkommenden 
Hummelarten. Ml 1 . Ver. Steierm. 1881, pp. 106-109. 
18 species of Bombus recorded. 
Apis, Melipona , and Trigona carnivorous ; H. Muller & Mason, Am. 
Nat. xvi. p. 681. 
Osmia ccerulescens, Latr. & Gir. (nec Kirby) noticed ; Saunders, Ent. 
M. M. xviii. p. 169. 
Chalicodoma. Parasites noticed ; Rudow, Ent. Nachr. viii. p. 279. C. 
luctuosa , Dours, noticed ; Costa, Atti Acc. Nap. ix. (6) p. 44. 
Megachile, sp. destructive to brightly-coloured garden flowers in 
America ; Murtfeldt, I’syche. iii. p. 343. 
Anthidium sticticam makes its nests in snail-shells in Algeria ; Lucas, 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. pp. cxix. & cxx. 
Nomada bifida , Thoms., and guttulata, Schenck, recorded as new to 
Britain ; Saunders, l. c. xix. pp. 45 & 46. 
Anthophora acervorum noticed; Parfitt, op. cit. p. 163. 
Xylocopa, sp. perforating the corolla of a Petunia ; Mann & Murtfeldt, 
Psyche, iii. pp. 298 & 343. 
Psitliyrus , sp. n. (?) or saltuum, var. (?) from Italy described; Gribodo, 
Ann. Ent. Ital. xiv. p. 81. 
Humble bee’s nest in a can of cart-grease; Lett, Sci. Goss, xviii. 
p. 237. 
Bombus. Synopsis of species of the Argentine Republic ( B . violaceus , 
Lep., thoracicus, Sich., caiannensis , Fabr., and dahlbomi, Gu4r. ; Holm- 
berg, An. Soc. Arg. viii. [1879] pp. 154-162. 
Bombus montanus, Lep. Schmiedekuecht refers to the confusion which 
has occurred in the identification of this species ; Ent. Nachr. viii. 
pp. 21 & 22. 
Melipona. See Dewitz, IP. ( Insecta , General Subject.) 
Apis mellifica, var. nigrila from France, &c., noticed ; Lucas, Bull. Soc. 
Ent. Fr. (6) ii. p. lxii. 
Apis mellifica. Parthenogenesis, fertile workers, &c., are errors ; 
Ulivi, Scientific American, March 25, 1882, and Am. Nat. xvi. pp. 680 & 
681. On the senses of bees ; Lubbock, Nature, xxvii. p. 46. The neigh- 
bourhood of beehives is very attractive to other insects, including Botnbi; 
J. A. Smith, Sci. Goss, xviii. pp. 20 & 21 (cf. also p. 65). Beehives 
entered by Acherontia atropos and Sphinx ligustri ; Katter, Ent. Nachr. 
viii. pp. 319 & 320. Bees destroyed by Eucalyptus flowers ; Girard, Bull. 
Soc. Ent. Fr. (6) ii. pp. cxviii. & cxix. 
Notes on Syrian bees ; A. J. Cook, P. Am. Ass. xxx. pp. 273-276. 
