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HYMENOPTEEA. 



Notes on various Species of Apid^e, Formicid.e, 

 FossoREs AND Vespid^; with Observations on 



SOME OF THE PaRASITES ON THE LATTER. 



By Frederick Smith. 



Not a single species has, to my knowledge, been added to 

 our indigenous Bees, Wasps, or Formicidse, during the present 

 season of 1870; it is true that I shall announce the discovery 

 of an additional species of Ant, but that was captured in the 

 year 1866. I have myself, and no doubt other entomologists 

 have been congratulated upon the line season we have en- 

 joyed ; our friends, who so kindly expressed their pleasure, 

 did so in the certain assurance that a fine^ season ensured an 

 abundant entomological harvest; but we, who have been 

 blessed by the enjoyment of many fine summers, have ascer- 

 tained by repeated experiences, that what is generally under- 

 stood of a fine season, by no means ensures a prolific ento- 

 mological one. 



Having visited the Suffolk coast at, and in the neighbour- 

 hood of Lowestoft; paid several visits to Southend; spent 

 five weeks on the coast of North Devon; and made an 

 excursion to Tenby, on the coast of South Wales ; also, in 

 the month of June, having had an opportunity of entomo- 

 logizing in Warwickshire, I have perhaps had a more exten- 

 sive range, during a single season, than I ever previously 

 enjoyed. Notwithstanding these facilities, 1 have experienced 



