36 The Irish Naturalist April, 



were made in August and in Victoria Square. The 

 Aculeatar, and indeed the other famihes also, suffered 

 from the wet season, and I got but few. It was of course 

 too late for most of the Sawflies, but Allantus arcuatus 

 was as usual very plentiful and obtrusive, shoving other 

 insects aside on the umbels of Hogweed and Ragweed, 

 and fighting with each other after their amiable manner. 



I netted Sirex gigas (female) in a street of Rostrevor, 

 as it hovered at the name-board of a shop. The wood 

 was of course the attraction, but I could not help wondering 

 at it wasting its time there when there was so much more 

 suitable timber within easy reach. 



Athalia lineolata does not seem to mind what elevation 

 it is at, for I took it at practically sea-level and high up on 

 the mountain-side. 



None of the Aculeates were plentiful and I was fortunate 

 in securing a specimen of Andrena deniiculata, a handsome 

 bee which I had only met with at Coolmore.^ There were 

 so few suitable days that I got very few Ichneumon Flies. 

 I took a male Ichneumon sarcitorius with the apical bands 

 of the abdominal segments nearly as white as those of 

 Swedish specimens kindl}/ sent to me by Dr. A. Roman. 

 I took I. caloscelis in my little garden, crawhng on the earth. 

 It is a male and much larger than usual, so much so that 

 I supposed it to be /. primatorius, but examination showed 

 it to be only this very common species. Glypta hiforeolata 

 is also much above the usual size, which is given by Morley'^ 

 as 4—6 mm., and by Thomson^ as if— 2J lines, whereas 

 my specimens are 8—9 mm. I was so puzzled that I 

 sent specimens to Dr. Roman who most kindly examined 

 them and informed me they were a large form of this species. 



Unless otherwise stated the locality for my captures 

 is Victoria Square, which at present (and long may it con- 

 tinue so) is a field with houses on two sides, close to my 

 own house and just the place in soil and herbage to attract 

 Hymenoptera. 



^ Irish Naturalist, xxvii. 3. 



^ British Ichneumons, iii, 166. ^ Opuscula Entomologica xiii, 1,342. 



