280 [December, 



some numbers ; I took nearly thirty specimens from the dry bark of a large beech 

 tree wliich had probably been blown down last spring. — Nobma.n H. Joy, Bradfield, 

 Reading : Nov. 8th, 1904. 



Aculeate Hi/menoptera from Fort William, N.B., and neighbourhood. — The 

 following Aculeate Hymenoptera were eajitured at or near Fort William Lochaber, 

 in 1902, 1903, and 1904, from the third week in June to the third week in July of 

 each year. The ground covered includes Fort William, with Glen Nevis, Banavie, 

 Corpach, Locheil, Glenfinnan, Loch Morar, Arisaig, Fort Augustus, Foyers, Camus- 

 na-Gaul, Ardgour, Spean Bridge, Glen Roy, and Ballachulisli, with Glencoe. 



The vegetation is grand, trees, ferns, and flowers luxuriant, but the Aculeata 

 are very poorly represented, both in species and numbers, as the following list too 

 plainly shows. Aculeafes in the North-West Highlands appear to be re-placed by 

 Diptera, which abound everywhere, and are far too numerous and attentive to be 

 welcome. 



Bombus agrorum and Veapa norceqica are the two commonest and most repre- 

 sentative species ; as regards the latter I can confirm Mr. Bignell's observation 

 recorded in Hymenoptera Aculeata, Saunders, p. 157, on the rapidity the wasp 

 displays in building her nest. 



A nest a little larger than a cricket ball was built in a young fir tree in my 

 garden a few feet from the ground ; the gardener endeavoured lo destroy it by 

 lighting a fire under it, but was not entirely successful, from the amount of rain, 

 about tliree-fourths was broken away, but from the stalk and cup shaped portion 

 that remained norvegica re-built her nest in four days, the gardener having been 

 warned off. 



List. — Formica fusca, Linn., rufa, Linn, (one nest at Loch Morar) ; Lasius 

 niger, Linn., flavus, De Geer ; Myrmica ruginodis, Nyl., scabrinodis, Nyl. ; Pom- 

 pilus pectinipes, V. d. L. ; Vespa rufa, Linn., norvegica, Fab. ; Salictus subfascia- 

 tus, Nyl. ; Sphecodes affinis, V. Hag. ; Andrena analis, Panz., coitana, Kirb. ; 

 Bombus terrestris, Linn., agrorum, Fab., joneUus, Smith (one specimen) ; Psithy- 

 rus vestalis, Fourc. Only B. agrorum, B. terrestris, and V. norvegica could be 

 called common. The specimens of V. rufa were rather small and dark. — G. A. 

 James Rothney, Pembury, Tudor Road, Upper Norwood : November 5th, 1904. 



Aculeate Hymenoptera at Milford-on-Sea. — Mr Alfred Beaumont has been 

 staying during the summer at the above locality, and amongst the Hymenoptera he 

 has sent to me for identification I think the following three should be recorded, viz., 

 Prosopis masoni, Saund., Andrena cetii, Schr., and A. lucens, Imh., as I do not 

 think they have been noted from that district before. Mr. Beaumont tells me that 

 he found Anihidium manicatum abundantly, visiting Lamium purpureum. — Edwaed 

 Saunders, St. Ann's, Woking : November '2nd, 1904. 



Leptopus boopis, Fourc, in Herm. — A specimen of this non-British Heraipteron 

 was captured in the Island of Herm during May of this year by Mr. E. D. Marquand. 

 The exact locality was not noted at the time, but it was most likely taken from 



