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120. Chnimnela Hanoveriana. I have to announce the capture, near York, of 

 Chrvsomela Hanoveriana. The locality is very circumscribed; it is some meadows 

 called Fulford Ings. On the 14th of May this year I took one pair on the flowers of 

 Caltha palustris (marsh marygold) by sweeping ; and though I watched narrowly for 

 them I could obtain no more until June 22nd, when they began to appear, but not in 

 any great numbers. I continued to capture them till the end of the first week in Ju- 

 ly: they are very local. They are easily found in the proper locality by observing the 

 leaves of Caltha palustris, which are eaten into numerous small round holes, about the 

 size of a shot. In fine weather they are found on the upper, but in wet they remain 

 on the inferior surface of the leaf. They seem to prefer very wet situations. — Bever- 

 ley R. Morris, A.]]., M.D. ; York, October 18, 1841. 



131. Captures of Fossorial Hymenoptera near Bristol. The perusal of Mr. Shuc- 

 kard's admirable ' Essay on the Fossorial Hymenoptera' having made me very anxious 

 to obtain a collection of these insects, I have, during the last three summers, devoted 

 a good deal of time to searching for them in the neighbourhood of Bristol, with what 

 success will be shown by the accompanying list, which may possibly be interesting to 

 some of the readers of ' The Entomologist.' I refrain from giving descriptions of the 

 new species, hoping that my friend Mr. Shuckard will, before very long, favour us 

 with a supplement to the above-mentioned work. In a few instances, where the spe- 

 cies has not, to my knowledge, been captured within five miles from Bristol, I have 

 added the name of the place where the capture was made. 

 Myrmosa melanocephala Nysson 3-maculatus 

 Tiphia femorata, Portshead (Mr. Home). 



minuta 

 Sapyga punctata 

 Pompilus pulcher, Weston- 

 super-mare. 



niger 



bifasciatus 



variegatus 



cinctellus 



viaticus 



gibbus 



crassicornis 



fuscus 



exaltatus 



agilis 



fasciatellus 



n. sp. al. to petiolatus 



n. sp. al. to agilis 



n. sp. al. to viaticus 

 Ammophila sabulosa 



hirsuta 

 Tachytes Pompiliformis 

 Nysson spinosus 



interruptus 



dimidiatus 

 Oxybelus uniglumis 

 Trypoxylon figulus 



clavicerum 



new species 

 Crabro cribrarius 



patellatus 



cetratus 



tarsatus 



xylurgus 



Lindenius 



vagus 



subpunctatus 



dimidiatus 



elongatulus 



obliquus 



podagricus 



capitosus 



spinipectus 



Wesmaeli, Weston-su- 

 per-mare 



albilabris 



brevis 



Crabro tibialis 



rufiventris 



n. s. al. to podagricus 



n. s. al. to elongatulus 

 Stigmus pendulus 

 Spilomena Troglodytes 

 Diodontus minutus 



luperus 



tristis 

 Ceratophorus Morio 

 Papalcecus gracilis ? and 



two other species. 

 Pemphredon lugubris 

 Cemonus unicolor 

 Mellinus arvensis 



sabulosus, Portshead 

 Alyson lunicornis 

 Gorytes mystaceus 



Fargeii 



4-fasciatus 

 Arpactus tumidus 

 Psen atratus 

 Mimesa unicolor 



bicolor, Clevedon 

 Cerceris ornata 



— G. H. K. Thwaites ; Kingsdown Parade, Bristol, November 6, 1841. 



