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INSECTA, HYMENOPTERA.
New species:—
Stizus brevipennis, Walsh, Amer. Ent. i. p. 162, Rock Island, Illinois,
U.S.
Nysson variolatus, Costa, I. c.p. 72, Otranto.
Lestiphorus bilunulatus, Costa, I. c. p. 75, Canavese.
Hoplisus sinuatus, Tuscany, Naples, and H. sulcifrons, Sardinia, p. 81, craverii,
p. 83, Bra: Costa, I. c.
Hoplisus eburneus, Chevrier, I. c. p. 270, Nyon.
Larrides.
Miscophus spurius, T>hm.,=niyer, Dbm.: Thorns. I.e.
New species:—
Larrada polita, Congonh, and L. semiargentea, S. America, p. 3; L. plebeia,
p. 4, Lagoa Santa; L. nuda, p. 5, Venezuela; L. gastrica, ibid, Parana,
Banda Oriental, Venezuela; L. angustata, p. 6, Lagoa Santa; L. appendiculata,
p. 7, Congonh : Taschenberg, Z. ges. Naturw. 1870, ii.
Morphota tridens, Tasch. I. c. p. 8, Lagoa Santa.
Tachytes clypeatus, p. 10, Parana; T. scalaris, p. 11, Mendoza; T. ruficaudis,
p. 12, N. Friburg, Parana; T. rhododactylus, Mendoza, T. setosus, Lagoa Santa,
p. 13; T. fraternus, p. 14, Mendoza; T. costalis, p. 15, Parahybuna, Parana:
Taschenberg, I. c.
Tachytes lativalvis, Thorns. I. c. p. 242, Sweden.
Astata luyens, Tasch. I. c. p. 16, Mendoza, Banda Oriental; A. gigas,Tasch.
I. c. p. 17, N. Friburg.
Miscophus exoticus, Tasch. I. c. p. 17, Rio Janeiro.
Pison convexifrons, Tasch. I. c. p. 18, N. Friburg, Rio Janeiro.
Bembecides.
Varieties of Monedula punctata (F.), variously known as arcuata,flexuosa,
and decorata, are mentioned by Taschenberg, I. c. p. 22.
Bembex citripes, sp. n, Taschenb. I. c. p. 19, Mendoza ; B. 4-maculata,sp.n,
p. 20 (unknown locality).
Monedula guttata, sp. n, p. 23, Banda Oriental; M. notata, sp. n, p. 24, Parana
; M. singularis, sp. n, p. 25, Mendoza; M. discisa, sp. n, p. 26, Rio
Janeiro, Parana, Banda Oriental: Tasch. I. c.
Sphegides.
WALSH (Amer. Ent. i. p. 164) tabulates the N.-American genera, and
notes the confusion in names of three " Blue wasps."
Ammophila pictipennis, sp. n, Walsh, I. c. f. 100, S. Illinois, U.S.A.
Pompilides.
LICHTENSTEIN (Pet. Nouv. 27, p. 108) records his having bred Pompiks
niger from a larva found in July 1869, fixed on the back of a spider, which it
eventually entirely devoured. He notes this circumstance as a uniqne
instance of a Pompilus simulating Ophion, Scolia, and Chrysis in habit,—
all other species known to him having been bred from cells provisioned by
the mother.