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A NEW BRITISH: CHRYSID : HEDYCHRIDIUM C0RIACEU3I, Dhb. 

 BY THE UEV. F. D. MOEICE, M.A., F.E.S. 



I have for some time been expecting that this widely distributed 

 species would turn up in our own country, and to-day (July 7th) I 

 was greatly pleased by finding it in this neighbourhood. 



It is almost exactly like our common species, minutum, Dhb. 

 (? = ardens, Coq.) ; and though it is in no collection that I have seen, 

 I have little doubt that it is mixed with minutum in some cabinets ; 

 but the pubescence is distinctly shorter; the puneturation of the 

 thorax much finer, and more even and close, giving a dull, coriaceous 

 effect (whence Dahlbom's name) ; and the postscutellum is deep 

 • blue, while in minutum (at least, in British specimens) this part is 

 brassy or greenish. 



Unfortunately, I do not know the exact spot where I found the 

 insect, as I did not recognise it till my return, when I picked it out 

 from among four or five of the common species in my collecting 

 bottle ; but it was certainly taken within a mile or two of the village 

 of Ottershaw, on the road between Woking and Chertsey. 



In my Synoptic Table (Ent. Mo. Mag., June, 1896, p. 126), the 

 Division numbered 10 should now read as follows : — 



10. Thorax somewhat smooth ; its puneturation remote ; abdomen with long 



scattered hairs at apex integrum. 



Thorax closely punctured, abdomen merely pubescent at apex. 



(a) Thorax coriaceous, dull ; postscutellum deep blue coriaceum. 



{b) Thorax coarsely and unevenly punctured, brilliant ; postscutellum brassy... 



minutum. 



{== ardens, auctt.). 

 Brunswick, Woking : 



July 1th, 1897. 



NOTES ON SOME BRITISH SYMENOPTERA. 

 BY THE EEV. F. D. MOEICE, M.A., F.E.S. 



Among various Hi/menoptera which I have taken this year, chiefly 

 in the neighbourhood of Woking, the following appear to deserve 

 record : — 



Xiplijjdria dromedarius, F. — Several males in a decayed willow 

 trunk at Ripley (June 28th and 29th) ; F. Smith says it is common 

 in such situations, but I never met with it before, and to judge from 

 foreign price lists, it must be considered a rarity on the continent. 



