THE 



ENTOMOLOGIST'S 

 MONTHLY MAGAZINE: 



SECOND SERIES-VOL. XXI. 



[VOLUME XLVI]. 



SOME INTERESTING BRITISH INSECTS (II).* 



BY G. C. CHAMPION, F.Z.S., AND R. W. LLOYD, F.E.S. 



(Plate I). 



We now give figures of one species of Aculeate Hymenoptera and 



six of CoJeoptera, in continuation of those shown on Plate III of the 



last volume of this Magazine. 



Fig. 1 — Odynerus herriehii, Saussure, ? . — This handsome wasp was 

 first taken by Mr. Rothney, at Stowborough Hoath, Dorset, in 

 1878. Mr. Dale subsequently captured a fT in the Isle of Pur- 

 beck, and the Rev. O. Pickard- Cambridge recorded one from 

 Bloxworth Heath, near Warehani. These were the only known 

 British examples till 1908, when Mr. C. H. Mortimer discovered 

 a large colony of it near Swanage, and since then it has been found 

 abvmdantly in the same locality, both by him and by Mr. E. B. 

 Nevinson. The insect belongs to the section Leionotus of Odynerus 

 and was originally described by F. Smith imder the specific name 

 basalis, but as Smith's name was already in use for another 

 species of the same genvis, that of Saussure, herricJiii, must be 

 adopted. All the known British localities for it are in the same 

 county, Dorset. The species is figured in Saunders' " British 

 Aculeate Hymeno])tera,'" under the name of 0. basalis, on plate 20, 

 fig. 6, but this drawing seems to have been made from a dis- 

 coloured badly-set example. The present figure is taken from 

 a specimen kindly lent by Mr. Nevinson. 



Figs. 2, 2a, b, ^ — MalacJiius v^dnera.tus, Ab. — This insect is the M. 

 spinosus, Er., of the catalogues of G. R. Waterhouse (1858), and 

 Rye (1866), but the species does not appear in our later lists, nor 



* Cf. Ent. Mo. Mag., xlv, pp. 196, 197 (Sept. 1909). 



January, 1910. 



