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It may be added that the British examples of C. planifrons 

 apparently attain a greater size than those of C. cephalotes, indeed, it 

 is quite one of our finest Fossorial Hymenoptera. The pilosity of the 

 clypeus appears to be normally golden in the latter, silvery in the 

 former, which also generally has the mesothorax less distinctly strigose. 

 This latter character is, however, evidently variable. 



I have taken C planifrons on the coast of Devonshire, and also 

 in North Wilts, the two localities being vastly different in character. 

 From this I infer that it will be found to be a widely distributed 

 species, though less generally so than G. ccpJialotes, since Mr. Saunders 

 informs me he has seen no other British examples, though he has the 

 ^ from Spain. I have taken C. cephalotes in the South, East, and West 

 of England, and it is no doubt ubiquitous, forming its burrows in dead 

 wood, vihWe planifrons has been found forming large colonies in sandy 

 soil. 



Cambridge: ITarcA, 1899. 



ENTOMOLOGY IN THE NEW FOREiT DURING AUGUST, 1898. 

 BY THE EEV. ALFRED THOHNLET, M.A., P.L.S. 



I was fortunate in obtaining a locum tenency at Bramshaw, in 

 the North of the Forest, during August of last year. The weather, 

 on the whole, was very fine and dry, and I was able to work leisurely 

 in a part of the Forest and neighbouring fields and plantations. As 

 is so often the case, results at the time appeared small ; but after- 

 work on the material obtained has shown that many interesting species 

 were taken. The Hymenoptera were most kindly taken in hand by 

 the Eev. F. D. Morice, who carefully dissected out the male armatures 

 of the species of Sphecodes, so as to render their identification quite 

 certain. I am also greatly indebted to Dr. E. H. Meade, of Brad- 

 ford, and Mr. P. H. Grimshaw, of the Edinburgh Museum, for kind 

 help with the Diptera. I have still a number of Orthoptera, which 

 up till now I have been unable to get named, and I shall be glad to 

 send them to any Orthopterist who will undertake the task. I have to 

 thank some kind friends at Bramshaw for permission to work in 

 private grounds, which always yielded the best things. I have a 

 number of unset specimens of Hymenoptera which I will gladly give 

 to any one sending box and postage. 



HYMENOPTERA. — Halictus: quadrinotatus,'K.\rhy,severs.\; zonuhis. Smith, 

 several; leucozoniu.t, Schrank, abundant cveryv^here ; hevi(/atiis, Kirby, 4 J s of 



