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QUEDII IN THE NESTS OF BOJilBUS AND TESPA. 

 BT G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z S. 



Mr. E. A. Butler Las recently sent me four Quediiiov examination, , 

 all taken by Mr. W. H. Tuck at various times near Bury St. Edmunds. 

 Two of these, found in October, 1895, in a nest of JBomhus terrestris, , 

 belong to Q.fulgidus, E. The third, found in September, 1893, in a nest I 

 of Vespa germanica, is apparently a discoloured Q. puncticoUis, Thorns., 

 The fourth, and most interesting, found in a nest of JBomhus hortorum\ 

 (s2<J^erra«eMs), agrees well with the description of Q.nigrocceruleus^^lvls. . 

 and Rey, which in the last edition of v. Heyden, Heitter, and Weise'si 

 Catalogue is placed as a variety of Q. fuIgidus,F. This form has not, 

 I believe, been previously recorded from Britain. Mr. Butler's ' 

 specimen is a well developed male. In Mulsant and Key's workj 

 (Staphyliniens, pp. 502, 503 [1877]) Q. niffrocceruletis is placed next: 

 Q. mesomelinus, Marsh., and they give the following characters toi 

 separate it from that species: — "Of the size of the largest examples f 

 of Q. meso7)ieUnus, proportionately a little broader, and of a deeper' 



