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example, 29.6.03 (see antea) ; Odynerms r/racHis, BruUe, S i 2.(5.03 ; Cuelioxys man- 

 dlbitlari.'c,'Ny]., ^ 9 , 8.7.03— this is qiiifo a new locality for tliis species, the only 

 oilier British one being from Wallase^', in Cheshire, it is so far a great rarity in this 

 country, only four or five specimens having been found ; Osiiiia aurulenta several 

 of both sexes evidently quite recently emerged, and also some pupa cases in a shell 

 of Helix aspersa, which Col. Yerbury had observed to be a source of interest to & $ 

 Osmia, which he saw investigating it ; I put the pill box containing the shell in a 

 drawer, and the next time I looked at it I found that a ? O. aurulenta had emerged, 

 I then opened the sliell and found that it contained only two cells, the one from 

 which the ? had emerged, and anal her whicli had an irregularly shaped small hole 

 at the side, looking as if it had been eaten out by some other insect ; in the shell 

 were also a lot of fragments of moss of a species of Hypnum. — Edward Saunders, 

 St. Ann's, Woking : December 1th, 1903. 



Hymenoptera Aculeata in the New Forest in 1903. — The following species 

 among others were taken by Mr. A. Gibb.s, F.L.S., of St. Albans, during his visit to 

 the New Forest: PompUns rufipex, L., one 9; Ammophila campe.ttrix, Latr., 

 several ; Crabro Jituratus, Panz., S fi^'ifl ? . ^ '"i'"e species. Hallctmt zonulu.i, Smith, 

 one (? ; Andrena fuscipex, Kirb., one $ ; A. aryentata, Smith, 9> find its parasite, 

 Nomada alboguttata, H.-S., one 9 • None of these are included in Mr. Arnold's 

 list (Rnt. Mo. Mag., November, 1903, p. 2S4). Three specimens of the common 

 Nomada solidaginis had abnormal neuration : one had two submarginal cells in 

 each wing, one had two submarginals in one wing and three in the other, another 

 had the 2nd submarginals very narrow, scarcely looking like cells. — E. N. Bloom- 

 field, Guestling Rectory : December, 1903. 



Aculeate Hymenoptera at Lyme l.'egis. — During July last I visited Lyme in the 

 hope of finding some of the rarities recorded from that district forty or fifty years 

 ago. I may say at once that, with the exception of Aporus unicolor. Spin.. I was 

 disappointed in this. My disappointment, however, was dispelled by my wife's 

 capture of a specimen of Oorytes laticinctus, Lep., 9 • This insect, I believe, has 

 not been taken since the pair recorded by Shuckard in his Fossorial Hymenoptera.^ 

 1837, from the New Forest. We were also fortunate in finding a colony of Halictus 

 semipunctulatus, Schk., an Aculeate new to Britain, which Mr. E. Saunders has 

 kindly identified and described (antea, p. 11) ; the (? c? of this were in fair numbers 

 near their burrows in the joints of a stone wall, but the 9 9 were very scarce and 

 difficult to get. The district is certainly a good one, as, in spite of the inclement 

 season, the following were seen or captured : — Myrmosa welanocephala. Fab., Agenia 

 variegata, Linn., Pompihis unicolor, Spin., cinctellus, Spin., viaticum, Linn., Snlhis 

 puxillus, Schiodte, parvulua, Dhlb., Trypoxylon clavictrum., Lep., attenuatum, Smith, 

 Tachytes pectinipes, Linn., Amwophila sahulosa, Linn., hirsutn. Scop., Piodonfiis 

 luperus. Shuck., Passalwcus insignip, V. d. Lind., Prmphrrdou leihipr. Shuck., 

 Mimesa unicolor, V. d. Lind., Psen. pallipe^, Panz., (Jorytes fumidui:, Panz., 7't/i- 

 cinrtns, Lep., Mellinmt arvevsis, Linn., Cerccris arnnaria, Linn., Crahro cetratv^, 

 Shuck., podagricus, V. d. Lind., pahnarius, Schreb., we.tmaeli, V. d. Lind., elnngatv- 

 Z»s, V. d. Lind., i-maculatus, Fab., and var. geninnlatux, cribrarivs, Linn., peltnrius, 

 Schreb., cephalotes, Panz., saundersi. Perk., chrysostoma, Lep., nlbilahris, Fab., En- 



