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INSECTA, HYMENOPTERA.
COUPER, WILLIAM. On the economy of a species of Feonus [sic].
Canad. Ent. ii.p. 110.
One new species is described.
EMERY, CARLO. Descrizione di una nuova Formica italiana. Ann.
Mus. Nap. v. pp. 117 & 118.
Contains description of a new genus and species (recharacterized
in the author's paper next quoted).
. Studi Mirmecologici. Bull. Ent. Ital. ii. pp. 193-201,
tav. 2. f. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7.
Contains extended notices of and fresh localities for recorded
species of Formicidee, characters for one new genus, descriptions
of five new species, and fig. of one new species, with details
of it and of another species.
FOREL, AUGUSTE. Notices myrmecologiques. Mitth. schw. ent.
Ges. iii. pp. 306-312.
Contains observations on Polyergus rufescens, proving that insect
to have no sting; and description of the o* of Cremastogaster
sordidula (Nyl.), not before known, and which appears to
present abnormal intermediate forms.
FREYMUTH (M me ). Pompholyx dimorpha, n. sp., nouvelle forme
aptere de la famille des Tenthredinides, et quelques autres
especes nouvelles de cette famille. Protoc. de la 47 me
seance d. 1. Soc. Imp. des amateurs des sc. nat. d'antrop.
et d'etnogr. a Moscou, 29 Jan. 1870, pp. 213-225.
A new genus and seven species are characterized. The diagnostic
characters are in Latin; and at the end of the article
are two synoptical tables for the determination of the European
and Asiatic species of Tarpa.
GIRAUD, JOSEPH. Note sur le Janus femoratus, Curtis, Hymenoptere
de la famille des Tenthredines. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr.
(4) x. pp. 27-30.
A short account of four species of Janus and Cephus, with a
list of the authors who have written on their economy.
HENSEL, A. Prosopis gerstaeckeri, eine muthmasslich neue
Bienen Art. B. E. Z. xiv. pp. 185-190.
HOLMGREN, AUGUST EMIL. Kongliga Svenska Fregattcn Eugenies
Resa omkring Jorden. Vetenskapliga Iakttagelser, ii.
Zoologi; 1. Insecta (Haft. 12. Hymenoptera, pp. 391-442,
Tan. viii.). Stockholm, 1868.
The author, in this part of the ' Entomologiska Bidrag' of the
well known < Eugenics Resa/ characterizes six new genera and
describes 101 new species, from all divisions of the globe except
Lurope, and the majority of which are Ichneumonidte. The plate
is above praise, as a lithograph.