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By E. C. RYE.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
HYMENOPTERA. 331
HYMENOPTERA
BALLION, E. Ueber Tenthredo flavieornis und T. luteicornis.
Bull. Mose. xiii. pp. 441-448.
Contains elucidation of synonymy, and a list of omissions
(chiefly spp. described by Eversniann in Bull. Mose. 1847) from
Kirchner's Cat. Hymenopt. Europse.
BASSETT, H. F. Galls found on plants of the genus Rubus.
Canad. Ent. ii. pp. 98-100.
Contains descriptions of two new species of Diastrophus,
from N. America.
BENDEL, H. Die Pflege der Biene bei den Romern. Ber. St.
Gall. Ges. 1869, p. 137 et seq.
An interesting compilation of scattered accounts by different
authors.
BLTTSCHLI, O. Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Biene. Z. wiss.
Zool. xx. pp. 519-564, Taf. xxiv.-xxvii.
The author enters very minutely into the development of the
various internal and external organs of the larva oiApis mellifica,
from the earliest obtainable embryo. The different stages, with
much highly magnified detail, are illustrated by four very clear
and copiously annotated plates.
CHEVRIER, FREDERIC. Description de quelques Hymenopteres
du Bassin du Leman. Mitth. schw. ent. Ges. iii. pp. 265-
276.
Seven new species are described in this paper.
COSTA, ACHILLE. Prospetto sistematico degli imenotteri italiani,
da servire di Prodromo della Imenotterologia Italiana.
Ann. Mus. Nap. v. 1865 (pub. in 1869), pp. 60-116.
In continuation of his proposed Prodromus (the 1st part of
which, published in 1867, contained an analytical table of the
aculeate Hymenoptera, and of the subfamilies of the Crabronidee,
treating the Sphegides, Larrides, and Bembecides in detail, as
regards the Italian species), the author describes the Italian species
of the Nyssonides, Philanthides, and Mellinides, of which 15
are treated as new.
COUPER, WILLIAM. Remarks on the history and architecture
of the Wood paper-making Wasps. Canad. Ent. ii.
pp. 49-53.
Treats of the economy of the American Vespa maculata and
V. germanica.