1903.] 245 



Two ramphilii in the Stephens Collection have been determined by Mr. Kirby 

 as latifroHs, Fall., but they seem to me not to have the bitiiberculate and deeply 

 sulcate frons, which {tente Konow) disliiiguishes that species. I imagine that they 

 are only a form oi depressiis, but see the note in Cam., vol. iii, p. 107. 



Balteatus {= cingulatus, C). In the Cameron Collection there is a blank 

 space above the label " ciiif/ulalus." The specimens which should occupy it will be 

 found mixed among those oi depressus. 



BetulcB 9 is described and excellently figured by Stephens, who says of it 

 " Found at Birchwood* in July." He describes also its J under the name aurita, 

 and says " found near London in June." In his Collection there is a single speci- 

 men of each sex (the S ticketed aurifa), and these were presumably the types of 

 his descriptions. In spite of their great age, the specimens are still in excellent 

 preservation. 



Straminelpes, Htg. {= arbusiorum,C.). There is some error, evidently, in Mr. 

 Cameron's account of the antennae in his descrijition of the species ; for it does not 

 agree with the Table which precedes it. I suspect that certain words have been 

 accidentally transposed, and that the description should reail " Third joint not much 

 longer than the second, and shorter than the fourth and fifth together," which 

 would agree with the Table and also with the facts. Curiously, also, Mr. Cameron 

 refers to " Figure 7«, Uase of Antenna," in PI. vi of his Vol. ii ; but no such figure 

 is to be found in the Plate as jjublislied ! 



In the Cameron Collection there is a single example of the species labelled 

 " Cameron, Rannoch." In this unluckily one antenna is wanting altogether, and 

 the other has lost precisely the joints which are characteristic. Still I think it is 

 certainly a xtramineipes. Another specimen may be seen in the Stephens Collection, 

 which Mr. Kirby some time ago determined and ticketed as .stramineipes. In this 

 the antennae are perfect and unmistakable. 



All the species of Lydini seem in this country to be rather uu- 

 frequent and sporadic in their occurrence. Personally I have most 

 often met with inanitus and silvaticus ; but even these only in isolated 

 specimens, usually flying about rose bushes in gardens. 



The supposed British specimens of 3£egalodo7ites (= Tarpa) in 

 the Stephens Collection are, I feel sure, foreigners ; and I therefore 

 do not include that genus among our native Lydini. 



RYMENOPTERA ACULEATA IN JERSEY, JUNE, 1903. 



BY EDWARD SAUNDERS, F.R.S., &c. 



At the end of last May I started for a fortnight's visit to Jersey 

 in hopes of securing some of the earlier Aculeates, which I failed to 

 find in July, 1901 {cf. Eut, Mo. Mag., 2nd Ser., xiii, p. 140, «&c.). I 



* This locality, I learn from Mr. McLachlan, is in Kent, between Foot's Cray and Famingham. 

 Stephens adds " it has also been taken in Devonshire," but I have reasons for doubting this 

 record. 



