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ACULEATE I{Y31EN0PTEEA IN PERTHSHIRE. 

 BY A. K. J. OAETKK. 



In connection with the notes on Scottish Acidcatcs in Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. for November, 1900, and January, 1901, perhaps the following 

 note on species taken by me at Comrie, Perthshire, may be of interest. 

 I collected there in 1898 during the first two weeks of July, and in 

 1900 from June 23rd to July 7th. In 1900 on most days the weather 

 was unfavourable for collecting, being dull and wet, yet I found 

 insects of all Orders much more abundant than in 1898, when I had 

 not a single wet day. In the Aculeates, to which group I more 

 especially confined my attention, I noticed only one exception to this, 

 viz., Crahro cribrarius, Linn., which I took in numbers all over the 

 district in 1898, while last year I only came across a single specimen. 



During the two visits I took altogether nearly sixty species, the 

 more noteworthy of which only are noticed here. Mr. Saunders has 

 very kindly made or confirmed the determinations : — 



Formica ru/a, Linn., ? , 1900 ; Leptothorax acervoriim, Fab., (? ? ^ , from a 

 nest in the ground ; Tiphia minuta, v. de Lind., one $ , 1900 ; Agenia variegata, 

 Linn., very abundant on walls, explorinji; crevices for spiders ; Ceropales maculafa, 

 Fab., several in 1898 ; Halius parvulus, Dlilb., cJ ^ , 1898 and 1900 ; pusillus, 

 Scliiodle, $ , 1900; Fompilus niger, Fab., common ; approximatus, Sm., $ , 1900 ; 

 ^i6i«s, Fab., several $^s; spissus, Schiodtc, common; unguictilaris, Thorns., two 

 ?, 1900; pectinipes, v. de Lind., ?, 1898. The species of Salius and Pompilus 

 occurred freely along a road running by a wood. They were nesting in a sandy 

 bank, and in the earth of a stone dyke. P. niger and s-pissus were especially 

 common. A large brown spider abundant on the ground an)ong short vegetation 

 seemed to be their prey. I found it in the nest of spissus with an egg attached to the 

 left side of the abdomen. Passalcecus moni/icoriiis, Dbm., one ^ , July 4th, 1900 ; 

 Pemphredon, Shuckardi, Moraw., common in garden ; lethifer, Shuck., one ? in 

 same place ; Crabro palmipes, Linn., very comnvon all over the district on both 

 visits ; dimidiatus. Fab., also common ; leucostomus, Linn., several, 1900, nesting in 

 a gate post ; varius, Lep., <? , 1900 ; Wesmaeli, v. de Lind., several, 1898 and 1900 ; 

 »a^M«, Linn., 1900, nesting in tree stumps, common; clavipeSjlumn., $,1898; T^espa 

 norvegica, ¥ah., 1900 ; Odgneriis 2^"rietiin(s,Ij'mn., comuion, (ound with mud nest 

 on walls ; pictus, Curt., $ , 19l;0 ; trimarginaliis, Zett., one S > June 28th, 1900. 



The Aniliopltila were not so well represented as the " wasps." I 

 took, aaiongst others : — 



Halictus suhfasciatiis, Nyl., common ; villosulus, Kirb. ; also Smeathmanellus , 

 Kirb., abundant at their burrows and at yellow composites ; Andrena anal is, Panz., 

 common; coitana, Kirb., also connnon ; /wca^a, Sm., 1900, (J , very abundant at 

 flowers of llnlius ; nana, Kirb., 1900, common ; Nomada ohttisifrons, Nyl., 1898, at a 

 bank with Andrena analis and coilaiia, but I did not see it enter the burrows of 



