52 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
absence. The females of the common garden ant, which are 
generally met with crawling about everywhere in the middle of 
August, this past season were rarely to be seen. In spite of the 
unfavourable season I was fortunate enough to add three species 
of Fossores and one bee to my Norfolk list, viz., Crabro 
podagricus, C. tibiale, Mimesa equestris, and Stelis pheoptera. 
Although I searched many times I could not find a single speci- 
men of Macropis labiata, and the few Aculeates which were to be 
seen were all very late, as might be expected. On clearing out 
some of my boxes, &ec., I found a male of Tetramorium lippula, 
one of our rarer British ants, which I had taken in the neighbour- 
hood of this city in 1878, and had overlooked. Sawflies, generally 
speaking, were also scarce, but still Nematus Ribesit were a perfect 
pest, denuding the gooseberry bushes cf their leaves. ‘The 
unusual abundance of this insect has already been noticed in this 
magazine. Several other sawflies were plentiful in the autumn ; 
I never before saw so many Allantus tricinctus and A. scrophularia. 
In the spring I took about half a dozen of that pretty little 
sawfly, Eriocampa nigripes, flying about the blackthorn. 
In Mr. Marshall’s ‘Catalogue of Ichneumonide,’ under 
Cryptus carnifex, he gives C. elegans, Desv., as a synonym ; these 
are clearly two-distinct species. Gravenhorst and ‘T'aschenberg 
did not know the male of carnifex. Thomson, in his ‘ Opuscula 
Entomologica,’ fase. 5, p. 513, describes both the sexes, under 
the name of Hygrocryptus carnifex, and gives varicozis, 'l'asch., 
as the male; it may be so, but Thomson describes the male as 
haying a red metathorax, which quite accords with the two males 
of carnifex I have taken, whilst Taschenberg makes no mention 
of any colour in this part. Thomson also describes another 
species of the same subgenus as Drewsent, which is evidently 
elegans of Desvignes. This latter name Thomson has given to a 
n. sp. of Hoplocryptus, another of his subgenera, and which name 
consequently ought to be altered. I have taken two males of 
another species of the same group of the genus Cryptus as 
C. carnifex and C. elegans, which I believe will prove to be the 
male of C. palustris, Thoms.; in lib. cit., p. 514, he describes the 
female only, and says it is very like carnifex, but has the meta- 
thorax, cox, trochanters, and base of petiole black. The female 
has no white ring on the antenne ; the insect is a little smaller, 
which agrees exactly with my insects, adding that the third and 
