12 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Waterford; Clonbrock, a few {11. E. D.) ; Ardtully and moun- 

 tains above Kenmare, Co. Kerry. 



Melanippe rivata, Hb. — Very rare and local. I have never 

 taken it. "Cork, Mr. Clear" (B.) ; Clonbullogue, King's Co. 

 (E. S.) ; Galway, a few (.4.). 



Melanippe sociata, Bork. — One of our most numerous Geo- 

 meters, unstable in its character, especially in the width of the 

 white submarginal band, and the outline and colour of the dark 

 median band. 



(To be continued.) 



A LIST OF THE HYMENOPTERA-ACULEATA OF THE 

 IPSWICH DISTRICT. 



By Claude Morley, F.E.S., &C. 



The collection of the Aculeates was never a very strong point 

 with me until my friend Ptev. E. N. Bloomfield, M.A., F.E.S., 

 proposed drawing up a list of those species which occurred in 

 the county of Suffolk, and I then did what I could to assist him 

 in so congenial a study, in view of the shortly expected publica- 

 tion of which I can say but little here without poaching upon his 

 preserves. The cradle of Anthophilology was rocked in this 

 District by Ptev. William Kirby, M.A., F.R.S., &c, rector of 

 Barnaul, just a hundred years ago, and, in setting forth my own 

 experience side by side with his, I think the contrast will but 

 show that, when Entomology as a whole was hardly shortcoated, 

 this pioneer was already a " man among men." This being so, 

 it is hardly wonderful that within a radius of five miles of Ipswich 

 town more species should be enumerated, thanks to him, than 

 have been recorded in some cases from a whole county. One or 

 two of these, however, have not been observed within seven 

 miles, and a couple of the Megachile occur no nearer than 

 Felixstowe, which is ten as the crow flies. These, however, are 

 the only exceptions. That there are species, especially among 

 the Fossores, at this moment disporting themselves upon the 

 blackberry blossoms and luscious Unibelliferae, carrying spiders 

 and caterpillars to their nests in sand-banks, posts, and dead 

 twigs, that have not their names enrolled in this list, there can 

 be no doubt ; but, since it is an obvious impossibility to include 

 the whole, and the list is now (I think) as long as others of the 

 same scope, it would appear that this classic corner of East 

 Anglia is to be anything but despised as a hunting-ground for 

 these the most intelligent insects ; and we trust that the follow- 

 ing list may induce some of our lepidopterists also to embrace 

 this exceedingly interesting branch, and those who have never 



