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There are three European members of the genus, D. orjiafits (Jabl.), 

 degeeri Uzel, and saltatrix Uzel, the first two of which we now know 

 as British, whilst outside Europe there are three knoAvn species, indicus 

 Bagn., sexmaciilatits Bagn., and jeanneli Bagn., from India, Ceylon, 

 and East Africa respectively. 



November 1921. 



Occurrence of Bombus cnUiimanus {Kirby) in Sussex. — This great rarity 

 aiuong British Humble Bees (ot which, accoidiiig to Sladeii, a single S is the 

 ouly record from Britain witliin the past thirty years, and which seems also to 

 be rare throughout Europe) also occurred in the same Newhaveu locality 

 which provided me with B. nir/rescens recovdad above. I took in all nine cJ c? 

 — !i fresh example during tlie tirst week in August, and eight more or less 

 worn specimens, some two or three miles away, a fortnight later. The 

 number taken, as with nigrescens, negatives any idea of importation from the 

 Continent, and I much hope to be able to obtain the 9 '? ^iid 9 ? n^xt 

 sunnner, particularly as neither has, as yet, been satisfactorily recorded 

 as British. Smith did, indeed, record 2 $ §, which he took at Southend, 

 as $ 5 of cullumcDius ; but, although Saunders accepted Smith's classi- 

 fication, there would appear to be some doubt ;is to whether the specimens 

 are not merely 5 2 of the common B. pratornm. I might add, however, 

 that though 1 never saw pratoruvi at Newhaven except for a single 5 j 

 this 5 was perfectly fresh and occurred exactly where most of the 

 (^ c? of cuUuinmius were taken ; and it may be Ahat further investigation 

 will establish the similarity between 5 5 of cidlumanns and pratoruvi^ 

 and, with it, the correctness of Smith's record. Dr. Perkins has noted 

 that there would appear to be some connection (at least in locality, 

 and in the date of appearance of the J ) between cullumunus and another 

 scarce British species, B. soroensis ; and it may, therefore, be of interest to 

 record that I also found soroensis to be extraordinarily abundant. On the 

 other hard, while Dr. Perkins has also found soroensis abundantly this year 

 (1921) in Gloucestershire, many of his S 6 were already faded in July, 

 whereas the great majority ol my own, which I took in late August and 

 early September, were perfectly fresh. As Dr. Perkins also informs me that 

 neither he, nor his uncle, ever took soroensis in Gloucestershire during a period 

 equivalent (for one man's collecting) to fifty years ; and further, that he 

 also found this species abundantly this year in Devon, as 1 myself did in 

 North Wales in mid-August, hymenopterists might do worse than watch for 

 cidlumanus next season, assuming some relationship to exist, as suggested, 

 between it and soroensis. — C. H. Mortimer, "Lotus,'' Dorking, Surrey: 

 Nov. 26fh, 1921. 



RItamphomyia conforniis K. in Scotland: a correction. — In the October 

 number of this Magazine, 1921 , p. 235, 1 recorded an Euipid from Pitlochry under 

 the name R. conforniis K. This is an error ; the insect is 7^. stiymosa Mcq., and 

 1 am obliged to Mr. Collin for drawing my attention to the wrong identifica- 

 tion. I had already taken the species at Pitlochry in 1920 and correctly 

 identified it, so that my error on this occasion is inexcusable. — A. E. .T. Carter, 

 Monifieth : November, 1921. 



