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This species is local, and not very frequently found in the 

 South of England ; in the northern counties it is much more 

 abundant : it is a common insect about Halifax and the 

 neighbourhood of Wakefield, where I have found its nest in 

 grass fields and on hedge-banks. 



5. Bombus Sylvarum, Illig. Mag. v. 163; Fahr. Sgst. Piez. 



p. 348, 27; DaJdb. Bo)7ib. Scand.'!<lo. U; St.Farg. 



Hym. i. 463 ; Drews. 8^ Schiodte, Bomb. Denm. p. 



109 ; Smith, Bees Great Brit. p. 217 ; Ngland. Ap. 



Boreal, p. 236 ; Schenck, Hym. Nassau, p. 158. 

 Apis Sylvarum, Scop. Ent. Carm. No. 822 ; Kirby, Ap. 



Aiigl. ii. 862, female, neuter, male. 

 Found in all parts of the country : its nests are usually 

 found on the ground beneath bushes, and, as I have ob- 

 served, always sheltered and more or less concealed : its 

 communities are not very numerous. 



6. Bombus lapponicus, Fabr. Syst. Piez. p. 345, 11 ; 



Dalilb. Bomb. Scand. No. 41 ; Zett. Ins. Lapp. 

 474 ; St. Farg. i. 459 ; Smith, Bees Great Brit. p. 

 218 ; Nyl. Ap. Boreal. 235. 

 Bombus regelationis, Kewm. Ent. Mag. ii. 327. 

 Mr. Newman first discovered this species in this country, 

 on the Black Mountain, Llantouy Abbey, Brecknockshire. 

 It has subsequently been taken in various localities in Wales, 

 but in the greatest numbers at Loch Rannoch, in Perthshire, 

 from whence I have obtained fine series of all the sexes : 

 I have also obtained it from Lapland, Norway and Sweden. 



Fredeiuck Smith. 

 (To be continued). 



Life-history of Depressaria carduella, Hubner. — This 

 insect has long held a place in our lists as a great rarity, 

 and its life-history has always been regarded as a thing to be 

 hoped for, until the matter was solved by Mr. J. 13. Hodgkin- 

 son, who wrote to me announcing that he had found a larva 

 mining the leaves of thistles on Millbarrow Scar, in West- 

 moreland. I immediately hastened to meet him, that I 

 might secure examples of it in situ. In this locality, where 

 sheep only can live, Mr. llodgkinson showed me the larva), 



