68 ' [March, 



to the existence of this tuft in the iiuile of L. alhipnncta as well as in that of L. 

 litharytjria, ami eorrectlj j^ives il , in both eases, as attached to the abilomen. — 

 Id. : January I7th, 19U3. 



Acrohasis tumidana, Schiff. {ruhrulibiella, F. R.), in South Devon. — I am 

 pleased to be able to record tlie occurrence of this little-known and extremely local 

 species in South Devon, especiallj as it lias not, so far as I am aware, ever previously 

 been taken, as regards Britain, to tlie west of the Isle oi' Wight. A single specimen, 

 a female in fine condition, was taken by myself at sugar on August 2Bth, 1901 ; the 

 date seems unusually late, but it will be remembered that most insects were con- 

 siderably behind their normal times in that year, owing to the backwardness of the 

 season. It may be as well to point out that the sadly confused synonymy of A. 

 tumidana, Schiff. (rubrotibie/la, F. K.), and its very close ally, A. Zelleri, Rag. 

 (tumidella , Zk.), was revised and corrected by the late Mons. Ragonot in Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., xxii, 27-8 (1885). — Id. : January 2nd, 1903. 



Aculeate Hymenoptera in East Kent in 1902. — The past year has been by no 

 means a bad year for Aculeate Hymenoptera, and I iiave added several species to my 

 local list. One peculiarity has been the abundance of males of species which 

 in previous years had been difficult to procure. I put this down to the broken 

 weather, and the long time during which the summer species were about. This 

 latter fact was very noticeable, and seems to have been due to the cold weather 

 retarding tlie emergence of the various insects. The $ of Prosopis dilatata, Kirb., 

 occurred from the 3rd to the 30th of August, and the $ from August 3rd to 

 September 18th, while a few cornuta, Sm., ^ $ were taken during the first ten 

 days of August. P. communis, Nyl., signata, Paiiz., hyalinata, Sm., confusa, Nyl., 

 and brevicornis, Nyl., all occurred here during August. I found two Masoni, Saund., 

 '+' ? while collecting with Mr. Sladen at Kingsdown on August 15th. Among the 

 llalicli, pauxillus, ^ehk., turned up in the early part of August, and a species 

 closely allied which seemed to be unnamed, also one specimen of 11. laiviyatus, 

 Kirb. (which is new to my district) on September 18th. One Andrtna Cetii, Schr., 

 $ was found on Scabious on September lOtli, the first i have seen here. Both 

 sexes of this insect were abundant at Kingsdown on August 15th, where I also took 

 one A. Uattorjiana, Fab., ? in splendid condition, though usually a July insect. 

 Andrena denticu/ata, Kirb., is quite new to me here, and occurred, cJ on August 

 12th, ? August 21st. The only other note which I have on the genus is that on 

 A)3ril 2nd I took five male rosa-, Panz., on a sallow bush. On my return, I found 

 every one was of the var. spinigera, a fact which points to this variety being 

 possibly a race. The higher bees belonging to tiie subfamily Apido: have been 

 very scarce this year. Megachile maritima, Kirb., (J turned up for the first time, 

 and 1 found O. pilicornis, Sm., at Cliaring on June :i2nd, but have found nothing 

 else worth special notice. Among the parasitic bees, ]\'oniadafucuta, Panz., was by 

 no means uncommon, apparently parasitic on A.fuloicrus, Kirb. The next species, 

 N. solidaginis, Panz., was abundant. 1 did not previously know that this common 

 Nomada occurred here, but found I had previously taken one specimen, which I had 

 mixed with jacobaa, Panz., with which it was found on the ragwort. I was much 

 disappointed not to get sexfasciata, Panz., as Eucera longicorhi.s, Linn., was un- 



