310 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



tips of the mandibles and the anterior margin of the clypeus 

 more or less ferruginous, occasionally with a minute whitish 

 spot towards the anterior margin of the clypeus. Thorax 

 oblong, with strong confluent punctures ; the collar with a 

 cream-coloured slightly interrupted line ; the tubercles, a 

 spot on the tegulse, a triangular spot on each side of the base 

 of the scutellum, cream-coloured; the extreme base of the 

 libige white, the posterior pair to one-third of their length ; 

 the lips of the claw-joint of the tarsi ferruginous ; wings 

 hyaline, faintly cloudly at their apical margins ; the nervures 

 dark brown. Abdomen closely and rather strongly punc- 

 tured ; the two basal segments red, with their apical margins 

 more or less black. Male. — Closely resembles the female, 

 hut with the face, mandibles and scape in front yellowish 

 Vv'hite ; the flagellura, except the basal joint, pale ferruginous. 

 Abdomen as in the female, occasionally entirely black, with 

 approaches thereto in different specimens. 



This species is included in the British list on the authority 

 of a single specimen, female, taken by Dr. Leach at Banlham, 

 a village about four miles from Kingsbridge, S. Devon. This 

 unique insect is in the British Museum Collection of Hyme- 

 noptera. 



Several of the once doubtful Devonshire insects in the 

 Leachian collection have of late years been rediscovered, 

 and this will in all probability be found when the neighbour- 

 hood of Kingsbridge is well collected over. The species 

 occurs in France, Italy and Albania. 



Fredeiuck Smith. 

 (To be continued). 



A Day in Man. By Edwin Bikchall, Esq. 



DuKiNG the last week of June, accompanied by my friend 

 Nicholas Cooke, I paid a short visit to the island. " The 

 stormy seas of Man" were fortunately abserjt on the occa- 

 sion, thojigh the rugged coast shows them to be no fiction of 

 the poet's brain; and the good ship 'Tynwald' ploughed 

 her rapid way through the gently heaving summer sea, 

 casting anchor under Douglas Head, eighty-two miles from 

 Liverpool, in a little more than five hours. 



