VESPIM, CRABRONIDiE. 
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New species : — 
Belonogastcr tricolor , Taschenberg, Z. Naturw. lvi. p. 175, Socotra. 
Odynerus lobatus , p.229, sulcatus, p. 230, trinacrice , p. 231, insularis and 
depressus , p. 232, and dcstefanii , p. 233, Andre, Nat. Sicil. ii. ; 0. siculus , 
Destefani, fof/i. cit. p. 85, Sicily; 0. (Ancistrocerus) jucundus, Budapest, 
p. 49, 0. ( Lionotus ) andrei , Granada, p. 50, 0. ( Epiponc ) albicinctus 
(Andre, MS.), Malaga, p. 51, 0. (E.) terricola, Budapest, Slavonia, p. 52, 
O. ( E .) bulgaricus, Bulgaria, and 0. (AJ.) sibiricus , Siberia, p. 54, Mocsary, 
Ert. Term. Kor. xiii. 
Polistcs extraneus , Kirby, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 344, Timor Laut Islands. 
Crabronidas. 
Sickmann, F. Yerzeichniss der bei Wellingholthausen bisher aufge- ' 
f undenen Baubwespen, mit biologischen und litterariscben Notizen. 
JB. Ver. Osnabruck, v. pp. 60-93. 
Chiefly of local interest. 
Pompilides. 
Pompilus rufipes, Van der Lind., is not a Prio [rio] cnemis ; but P. versi- 
color, Scop., to which it has erroneously been referred, is one, aud = P. % 
bipunctatus and variegatus , Fabr., Dahlb., &c. ; Prio [no] cnemis gibbus , 
Fabr. (== coriaceus, Dahlb.), must take the name of perturbator , Harr., 
as gibbus, Scop., = exaltatus , Fabr.; Prio \no~] cnemis propinquus, Lep , 
redescribed: Kohl, Deutsche E. Z. xxvii. pp. 179-183. 
Pompilus. Mode of attacking and overcoming large spiders ; Fabre, 
Nouv. Souv. Ent. pp. 20G-225. Manifesting momory ; id. l.c. pp. 153-156. 
P. castaneus, Prov., = argenteus , Cress. ; Provancher, Nat. Canad. xiv. 
p. 35. P. unguicularis, Thoms., recorded as new to Britain, and re- 
described ; E. Saunders, Ent. M. M. xx. pp. 135 & 136. 
Pno[no] cnemis walcefieldi , W. F. Kirby, figs. 1 & 2, conformis, figs, 4 & 5, 
monachus, fig. 6, and maculipennis , Smith, fig. 9, figured ;1 Waterhouse, Aid, 
ii. pi. cxxxvii. 
Pompilus hiendlmayri, Kohl, Wien. ent. Z. ii. p. 49, Aragon ; P. gredleri , 
id. Deutsche E. Z. xxvii. p. 184, Brussa : spp. nn. 
Prio [wo] cnemis sordidipennis, Sicily, p. 179, mocsarii , Corfu, p. 181, and 
frcy-gessneri , Brussa, p. 183, id. 1. c. ; P. lmttoni (W., fig. 8),*>p. 199, xenos 
(W., fig. 3), and pascoei (W., fig. 7; = Ichneumon lotatorius, Fabr., var. ; 
Fitch, P. E. Soc. 1883, p. xxxvi.), p. 20, Kirby, Tr. E. Soc., 1883, and 
Waterhouse, Aid, ii. p. cxxxvii., New Zealand : spp. nn. 
Ceropales superba , sp. n., Provancher, Nat. Canad. xiv. p. 36, Toronto. 
Sphegides. 
A mmophila hirsuta, Kirby. Mode of hunting and of overpowering its 
prey, consisting of larvae of Agrotis segetum, which are detected under the 
surface of the ground by some apparently unknown sense. The larva is 
carefully paralyzed in every segment before being buried, which leads 
the author to conclude that the Ammophila originally preyed on insects 
