NOTES ON HYMENOPTEHA. 97 



a fine species of Andrena, made for the first time, the insect 

 being A. vitrea ; there was a series of specimens of this bee 

 in the collection of the late Mr. T. Desvignes, formerly that 

 of Mr. E. Shuckardj one of these he presented to myself; 

 when the collection was sold, it was purchased by Mr. Wal- 

 cott of Bristol ; unfortunately, the entire collection perished 

 in its transit from London ; the single example, presented to 

 my collection, becoming unique. I have now obtained a 

 series of thirty-two specimens, three being males; that sex 

 was previously unknown. Two or three other scarce species 

 o? Andrena occur in the same locality ; Andi^ena denticulata 

 and A. dorsata, both being found there. 



Several of the scarcer species o^ ApidcB are found at High 

 Peak, and Budleigh Salterton ; at the former locality may 

 be meii\Aowedi, StelisjjlicBoiJtera and S.aterrima, also Nomada 

 armata; at the latter place, Panurgus calcaratus, Osmia 

 spimdosa and Nomada armata; Apis ligustica was also ob- 

 served there. 



I give a complete list of the Hymenoptera taken ; its use 

 whenever the insect Fauna of Devonshire is compiled may 

 probably be appreciated. 



The past season has certainly been productive of several 

 of our rarer Acnleata; Mr. Rothney was fortunate in secur- 

 ing during a short visit to the Isle of Wight, in July last, 

 several of the scarcer species; he furnished a list from which 

 I extract the following : — Methoca ichneumono'ides, four 

 specimens of the female ; MiUilla ephippium and Myrmosa 

 7nelanocephala, both insects in some numbers ; Astata hoops 

 at Black Gang Chine. Aporus hicolor, four males and three 

 females; this capture is one of the most important that has 

 occurred, no one had previously captured the male in this 

 country; the insect was not known to Shuckard, and conse- 

 quently is not described in his excellent Essay on the Fos- 



1872. ' H 



