HYMENOPTERA. 87 



HYMENOPTERA. 



By Frederick Smith. 



Notes on the New Species of British Aculeate 

 Hymenoptera. 



Since the publication of Mr. Kirby's Monographia Apum 



Anglise, fifty-eight new species of Bees have been discovered 

 in this country ; several of these have long been known in 

 different parts of Europe, and the descriptions of others lie 

 scattered in various publications. It has been thought de- 

 sirable to bring together a list of the Bees unknown at the 

 time of publication of Kirby's Work, pointing out the place 

 of their description, the localities known for the species, and 

 adding, at the same time, such observations as appear to be 

 necessary. 



In 1836, Shuckard did for the British Fossorial Hymen- 

 optera what Kirby had previously done for the British Bees, 

 and, in his Essay on the Indigenous Fossorial Hymenoptera, 

 described all the British species then known ; this Essay 

 enjoys a world-wide fame, and since its publication little has 

 been added to our knowledge of the Fossorial division of the 

 Aculeata; yet I have here mentioned the few new species 

 which have occurred, with the view of bringing as it were 

 into one focus, the full amount of united labour on the 

 Aculeate group. 



The Formicidce have hitherto been much neglected in this 

 country, and we are only beginning to acquire a knowledge 

 of our riches in number of species. The Stephensian Cata- 



