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and June among aspen (Populus tremula). Wilkinson gives as 
localities West Wickham Woods, Sydenham, and Dartford Heath 
fence ; it also occurs at Wimbledon, Sidcup, Tilgate Forest, and 
Folkestone. The well-known locality for it in Darenth Wood is 
now closed to entomologists. 
(To be continued.) 
NOTES ON HYMENOPTERA. 
By Epwarp Capron, M.D. 
Tue general scarcity of insect life was equally apparent last 
summer in the neighbourhood of Guildford as in other districts. 
The Aculeates and fossorial group of Hymenoptera were hardly 
to be seen; especially was it the case among the autumnal 
Halicti, which, usually abundant here on the heads of the various 
Composite, were last season entirely absent. In these families 
the only capture worth recording was another male of Crabro 
pterotus, taken almost exactly in the same place as the one I 
recorded in 1878. I bred thirteen specimens of Spilomena 
troglodytes from some dead bramble sticks, one male only among 
them; and caught on the wing one example of Stigmus pendulus. 
In the Tenthredinidz two specimens of Nematus lucidus were my 
only additions. In the Ichneumonide I was more fortunate; and 
during the few really hot and fine days secured several fine 
species not hitherto recorded as occurring in Britain, and many 
of the Jess common ones already on the list. 
Among the new species, Wumesius egregius, Holmg., of which 
a single female occurred, is one of the most beautiful and 
interesting; a good figure is given of it in Vollenhoven’s 
‘Pinacographia’ (pl. 33, fig. 8). With it I took also a female of 
another species of the same genus, which I am unable at present 
to identify: the abdomen is totally black, as also the posterior 
legs, the two anterior pairs being testaceous ; the thorax, also, has 
no yellow markings. 
Catoglyptus pulchricornis, Holmg.—Of this I took two females ; 
it may be easily recognised by the tricoloured antenne and 
peculiar aculeus turned up almost in a semicircle. Of the same 
genus both C. fortipes and C. fuscicornis occurred. 
A Mesoleius I could not determine satisfactorily was returned 
