SUMMARY OF ACULEATK HYMENOPTKRA, 1874 — 76. 01 



but SO secluded was his life, so much did he shun society, 

 that those who knew him personally will soon be few in 

 number. The accompanying likeness is from a photograph 

 taken about 1857. It fairly recalls his presence as he was, 

 though it scarcely reveals the cheerfulness and humour 

 which peeped through his reserved exterior. In his life there 

 were no exciting incidents to tell ; but in writing this memoir 

 I have striven to bring out the character of the man, to 

 describe him as I found him, — one of Nature's gentlemen, — 

 to whom may fitly be applied the words, from John Ray's 

 tomb at Black Notley : — 



" Non sanguine et genere insignis, sed quod majus, propria 

 virtute illustris, De opibus titulisque oblinendis parum 

 sollicitus, haec potius mereri voluit quam adipisci : dum 

 sub privato lare, sua sorte conlentus (forluna lautiori dignus) 

 consenuit. In rebus aliis sibi raodum facile imposuit, in 

 studiis nullum." 



NOTES ON NEW AND RARE SPECIES OF ACULEATE 

 HYMENOPTERA, TAKEN DURING 1874, 1875, 1876. 



By Frederick Smith. 



When the 'Entomologist's Annual' terminated its career 

 it had been the means of recording discoveries of new 

 species, and also of making known localities where species 

 of rarity might be found: it had done this during a period of 

 twenty years. Entomologists are greatly indebted to Mr. 

 Stainlon for carrying on this annual record of entomological 

 campaigns. Interesting discoveries are, it is true, reported in 

 the 'Entomologist,' and also in the 'Entom. Mo. Maga- 

 zine;' but neither of these publications have brought these 

 matters into a focus as they were formerly in the 'Entomolo- 

 gist's Annual.' 



It might be imagined that during the three years which 

 have elapsed since the cessation of the Annual many 

 new species of Aculeate Hymerioptera must have been 

 discovered. This, however, is not the case : two or three, 

 new to the British list, have been found, and several captures 

 of rarities have been made ; in addition to which various 

 interesting discoveries, in connection with recorded species, 

 have occurred. At the time of the publication of my work 



