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Myrmecina LatreUlei, Curt., and Stenamma Westwoodi, West.^ in East Kent. — 

 In September I went over to Doddington to look for J <? of If. LatreUlei, and 

 found 2 or 3 by sweeping in long grass about 3 p.m. It was a beautiful after- 

 noon. It was not possible to search for nests when I swept the male, but I have 

 previously found the worker in small parties of 3 or 4 in this locality. I mistook 

 them, and am afraid I have recorded them as Tetramorium, which has not yet 

 occurred here, though I have it from a very similar locality at Chatham. I 

 have also taken a fine $ of this insect, which flew into my garden and settled 

 on a stone slab. I have previously found the worker here, but it seems very scarce. 

 Possibly I may have overlooked it, as it is not unlike Leptothorax acervorum, 

 which is comniOn here, and may easily be mistaken for a small Myrmica until the 

 head is examined. — Id. 



Vespa austriaca in a nest of V. rufa at Forres in 1892. — Messrs. Carpenter's and 

 Pack-Beresford's interesting article on these two wasps has led me to examine my 

 specimens of rtifa, most of which came from a nest taken at Forres in 1892, as re- 

 corded by me in the Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxix, p. 02. At the time of finding the nest I 

 was ignorant of the structural characters which distinguish the two, but I noticed 

 that some of the wasps had the colorations of a?/.sf;-iaca, and was inclined so to name 

 them. The colouring of rufa was, however, so variable in the specimens, that I put 

 them in as rufa. Mr. Saunders has now kindly identified two S S of austriaca 

 among my specimens. I cannot be suflBciently certain of the facts under wliich they 

 occurred to draw any conclusions, but I believe they occurred in the nest taken by 

 me as previously described. — Id. 



Hymenoptera AcuJeata in the New Forest. — Owing to the wet weather, this 

 summer has proved to be a poor season for most Hymcnopterists. However, during 

 tliree months spent in the New Forest, from June 22nd to September loth, I 

 managed to capture amongst others the following species, some of which, I believe, 

 have not been hitherto recorded from that locality : — 



One Didineis lunicornis, ? , in August, rimning amongst tufts of grass. Two 

 $ Mutilla enropaa, Linn., one in a gravel pit, and three $ of same (September) on 

 Angelica in bogs. Methoca ichneumonides, Ltr., ^ , plentiful from June to end of 

 July on a sandy bank. One Sapyga b-punctata. Fab., burrowing in sand. Five $ 

 Fompilus unicolor. Spin., and one S > these were fairly common in one or two sandy 

 places, but difficult to catch ; I $ P. spissus, Schiodte. Salius affinis, V. de Lind., 

 seven ? , three cJ , from July to middle of August, on a sandy bank ; S. obtusiveutris, 

 Schiodte, one <J . Astatus loops, Schr., plentiful on the sandy bank mentioned 

 above, g appearing two to three weeks earlier than the $ . Mimesa Shuckardi, 

 Wesm., and M. bicolor. Fab., both very connnon, August and September. Gorytes 

 tumidus, Panz., several ? in August, only in the hottest sunshine. Andrena Cetii, 

 Schrank, late August, three ? , burrowing in a very hard gravelly path. Macropis 

 laliata, Fabr., 9 fairly plentiful, <? rarer, on Lysimachia in the bogs. Nomada 

 Folerjeotiana, Panz., one ? , July, flying over heather. Osmia leucomelana, Kii-b., 

 two ? , burrowing in an old paling. Stelis phoeopfera, Kir., three ? > with O. 

 fulviventris, from an old paling. Crahro interruptus, De G., four V , August and 

 September, on Angelica blooms ; C. peltarius, Schreb., one ? , August, on Angelica ; 

 C. Panzeri, V. de Lind, one (J. Other species were taken, but I do not think any 

 of them are wortli recording. — O. Arnold, Royal College of Science, South Xen- 

 sington : October, 1903. 



