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Schk., J, III ill lit us, Kh-h., c? , minufiaslmus, Kirb., J, Panurgus calcaratus, Scop., 

 c? ? , Nomada soUdaginl'!, Pz., ? . Could I have caught more of the many red bodied 

 Pompili which I saw I sliould doubtless have added several other species. — E. 

 Saundeus, St. Ann's Woking : October, 1902. 



Iltfmeiioptera .ivuleata in North Wales. — Among some ^cu/ea^es which Colonel 

 Yerbury kindly collected for me in North Wales during last summer, the following 

 species are worth recording: — Taohysiihex unicolor, Pz., Llanbedr, Barmouth 

 (July, August) : Trypoxylon attonuatiim, Sm., Barmouth (June) ; Nysson spinosus, 

 F., Barmouth (June, July) ; Cerceris arenarla, L., Harlech (September) ; Odynerus 

 sp'mipes, L., Llanbedr, Harlech (July) ; Prosopis confusa, Nyl., Barmouth (July) ; 

 Andrena proxima, Kirb., Barnioutli (June, July) ; A. denticulata $ , Barmouth 

 (September) ; Epeolus rufipes, Thorns., Barmouth, Harlech (September) ; Caelioxys 

 acuminata, Nyl., ^ Harlech (September) ; Meijachile versicolor, Sm., ? Harlech 

 (September) ; Osmia pariidina, Curt., $ Llanbedr : of this rare species, a single, 

 much-exposed specimen was taken on the 2nd of July ; O. auridenta, Pz., Llanbedr 

 (July) ; Anthophora furcata <J Llanbedr (July). — Id. 



Aculeates in the Midlands.— In my garden on July 2nd I captured a single 

 male of Crahro cetratus. Shuck., this is I believe the first record of this rare insect 

 in the Midlands. Between August 26th and September 17th, Salius pusillus, 

 Schiodte, occurred freely in a sand-pit at Moseley ; only one male was taken, 

 but over 50 females, six of them with their prey (a small brown spider). In the 

 same spot four additions to our Moseley district were captured, viz. : Tachytes 

 pectinipes, L., Entomognathus hrevis, v. d. L., Crabro 4:-maculatus, and albilabris, F., 

 of the last-mentioned 20 females ; and a single female of Qorytes tumidus, Pz. A 

 short visit to Wyre Forest on July 17th produced fair results. From posts (old 

 railway sleepers), Osmia cuerulescens, L., Stigmus Solskyi, Mor., Psen pallipes, Pz., 

 Pemphredon lethifer, Shuck., Trypoxylon attenuatum, Sm., and clavicerum, Lep., 

 one Agenia hircana, F., female (on decayed tree), Passaloecus corniger, Shuck., and 

 a very curious specimen of P. gracilis. Curt., having one antenna black and the 

 other llavous. — R. C. Bkadley, Moseley, Birmingham : December, 1902. 



Chrysids in the Midlands and at Barmouth. — Records of Chrysids are so few, 

 and those given usually from Southern and Eastern localities, that a note of those 

 taken in other districts this season may prove of value, although there are no 

 rarities amongst them. In my garden, Ellampus ceneus, F. (a single specimen), 

 auratus (some very small), Cleptes pallipes, Lep., seen, not taken. Wyre Forest, 

 Chrysis cyanea, h., fulgida, L., on posts, three taken, several missed, very active. 

 This seems to be a Wyre species, as I have taken it there before. Barmouth, 

 Hedychridium minutum, Lep. (3), Chrysis viridula, L. (2), Ruddii, Shuck. (4). A 

 fine specimen oi pustulosa was taken, but afterwards unfortunately lost. — Id. 



Hemiptera, cf"c., at Rotherfield Peppard, Henley-on-Thames. — During the past 

 few months I have taken the following Hemiptera within a short distance of my 

 house 5 some, of course, are common, but several of the captures are of consider* 



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