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XII. Hymenoptera aculeata, collected by the Rev. Alfred 

 E, Eaton, M.A., in Maelcwa and Tencrife, in the 

 spring of 1902, including notes on species taken 

 by the late T. Vernon Wollaston and F. A. 

 Bellamy. By Edward Saunders, F.R.S., 

 F.L.S., etc. 



• [Read March ISth, 1903.] 



In the little collection enumerated below, made by Mr. 

 Eaton in the above islands, there are several species of 

 interest. I have described four which appear to be new, 

 and besides these two or three will probably prove so when 

 more material comes to hand. A curious variety of Borahus 

 terrestris, L., is worthy of special notice, it is quite black 

 with the exception of the apex of the abdomen which is 

 snowy white. Mr. Eaton captured three males and two 

 workers, and remarks that the species is common in 

 Tenerife, and as he sent no ordinarily-coloured specimens, I 

 presume that this is the usual form in the island. Brulle 

 does not mention terrestris as a Canary Island species, 

 soroensis being the only representative of the genus which 

 he records, and I cannot help having a suspicion that he 

 has mistaken this black var. of terrestris for the similarly 

 coloured form of soroensis which is well known on the 

 Continent. So little is known of the Hymenoptera of 

 these islands that I thought the present communication 

 might be acceptable to the Society. 



Since this paper was read, I have had placed in my 

 hands by Prof. Poulton two collections from the Hope 

 Department of the University of Oxford — one from Madeira 

 made in 1847 and follov/ing years by the late T. V. 

 Wollaston, and one made last year at Tenerife by Mr. 

 F. A. Bellamy ; as these contain several species not in- 

 cluded in my paper, I have, at Prof. Poulton's suggestion, 

 incorporated them. 



Wollaston's collection was purchased in 1861 by the Rev. 

 F. W. Hope, and presented to the Oxford University 

 Museum. The specimens are of course old and more or less 

 faded, the smaller ones are often gummed on cards, which 



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