38 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



I do not presume to do more than suggest the shape as a 

 sightly one of its kind, and the height serviceable ; but is it too 

 much to hope that we shall ever have a " standard " shape and 

 a "standard" height of setting? What a difference it would 

 make in the appearance of our collections if we had ! 



[All the drawings kindly furnished by Mr. Day were actual 

 size, but for the purpose of reproduction here they have been 

 reduced about one-half. — Ed.] 



Knutsford : December, 1897. 



A LIST OF THE HYMENOPTERA-ACULEATA OF THE 

 IPSWICH DISTRICT. 



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



^Concluded from p. 17.) 



Andkena, Fab. (contd.) 



133. coitana, Kirb. — " This has been taken only by my ingenious 

 friend, the Rev. James Coyte, of Ipswich, by whose name I 

 have called it [A D. J. Coyte, entomologo Gippovicensi, mihi, 

 transmissa] , and whose cabinet contains many other very 

 rare insects " (Kirby, who, however, also records it under the 

 name shawella, from Barham); Bentley Woods, August, 1895. 



IM.falvaijo, Chr. — Barham; frequent on flowers in grassy places 

 July, 1799 {Kirby). 



135. labialis, Kirb. — A single female taken on hawthorn blossoms near 



Ipswich in 1893. 



136. minutula, Kirb. (2nd brood). — Barham (Kirby); not rare, Clop- 



ton and Grundisburgh. 

 parvula, Kirb. (1st brood). — Barham (Kirby) ; common in the 

 spring on dandelions, &c. 



137. nana, Kirb. — Twice taken at Barham (Kirby). Not uncommon. 



138. proximo,, Kirb. — Barham ; rare (Kirby) ; one female on Umbel- 



liferas at Great Blakenham, June 10th, 1897 [E. M. M., 

 Dec, 1897]. 



139. dorsata, Kirb. — Very frequently in flowers at Barham (Kirby) ; 



rare ; one female at Baylham, by the Gipping, July 24th, 1897. 



140. afzeliella, Kirb. — Barham (Kirby) ; rare ; not seen in the Ipswich 



district since 1893. 

 var. fuscata, Kirb. — Barhamia?, Maio medio 1800 in floribus lecta 



(Kirby). 

 var. convexiuscula , Kirb. — Barham (Kirby). 



141. wilkella. Kirb. — Barham (Kirby) ; not rare ; beaten from bushes ; 



Foxhall, Bentley Woods, &c. 



142. similis, Sm. — Bentley Woods ; females beaten rarely from Populus 



alba in 1897. 

 Dasypoda, Latr. 



143. hirtipes. — Barham (Kirby). 



