202 [September, 



Rather shining, bhick, with elytra and apex of abdomen sometimes pitchy, 

 finely pubescent ; head transverse, densely and finely punctured ; antennae robust, 

 a little longer than head and thorax, black or obscurely testaceous, 4tli joint a little 

 longer than 3rd, transverse, the 5th to the 10th gradually bi'oader, strongly trans- 

 verse, the last acuminate at apex, as long as the two preceding together; thorax 

 transverse, a little narrower at base than elytra, finely, densely, and rugosely punc- 

 tured ; elytra a little longer than thorax, quadrate, finely, closely, and rugosely 

 punctured ; hind body broad, strongly bordered at sides, gradually narrowed from 

 middle to apex, finely, densely, and rugosely punctured on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 

 base of 5th segments, sparingly and obsoletely punctured on the rest of the surface ; 

 legs pitchy-testaceous, femora a little darker, knees and tarsi lighter, the latter 

 rather slender. Long., 2 mm. 



Aleochara spadicea, Er,, has always been regarded as one of 

 the most scarce of the British Stnphijlinid<jB, only a few odd specimens 

 having occurred in flood-rubbish, &c. There is little doubt that it is 

 really not uncommon, but attached entirely to the mole, I have 

 taken it on several occasions in Berkshire and once in Devonshire, 

 but have never taken more than two in one nest. 



(To be continuedj. 



Bradfield, Reading : 



August llth, 1906. 



ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO THE LIST OF 

 BRITISH HYMENOPTERA SINCE 1896. 



BY EDW^ARD SAUNDERS, F.R.S. 



{Concluded from page 33). 



Andrena ruficrus, Nyl. (Ent. Mo. Mag., xxxv, p. 154). 



We are indebted to Mr. W. Evans for the first recorded capture 



of this species. He took three males in April, 1896, at Aberfoyle in 



dandelion flowers; subsequently, in 1903, Mr. Malloch took a $ and 



$ on the hill side near Murroch Glen in the Clyde district. Beyond 



these captures we have no records. 



The species is allied to gioynana and angustior, but resembles in the S sex 

 a small clarJcella or a preecox; it lacks the mandibular tooth of />ra?coa? and has 

 a much shorter 3rd joint of the antennae than elarJcella. The pale posterior tibiae 

 with a darker stain across the middle (much as in albicans) of the S ^intl the clear 

 testaceous tibiae of the ? will distinguish it at once from either gwynana or 

 angustior. 



It should follow angustior in the list. 



