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■winged ants being found in the crop of the bird, long after 

 the males and females have left the nests of our British ants, 

 was suspicious, and first raised doubts in my mind. Whence 

 then did the bird procure all the sexes? if in Norway, how 

 long would the bird preserve in ice? 



Of the rare species of Chr?/sididcB, T have mentioned the 

 capture of JElampus Panzeri, and I have since ascertained 

 that the almost equally rare IledycJirum rosce was taken 

 plentifully on Shirley Common on the 7th of August by 

 Mr. G. A. James Rothney ; about the same time I took it 

 near Budleigh Salterton. 



The impression that I gather from Entomologists generally 

 is, that the past year has not been a very productive one of 

 Entomological rarities, or of great and valuable additions to 

 our insect fauna : to the Coleoptera I expect the most im- 

 portant additions have been made; to the Hymenoptera, 

 more in the way of rarities has been discovered than has 

 accrued for some years past, and also one or two interesting 

 additions to our list have been made. Judsrin"; from what I 

 have succeeded in doing in South Devon this season, and in 

 North Devon during my visits of two former years, T become 

 more and more sanguine of the richness of the Hymen- 

 opterous richness of the Fauna of that county. The area over 

 which Dr. Leach is believed to have worked, the country 

 betw^een Bolt Head and Kingsbridge, has not been recently 

 investigated ; I trust this ground will not long remain un- 

 explored. If time and health are granted me, I still hope 

 myself to visit other portions of that beautiful part of the 

 country, extending along the coast of South Devon. 



The following list of the species of Hymenoptera collected 

 along a line of coast, not exceeding fourteen miles, will add 

 considerably to the recorded species of Acideata found in 



