70 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
NEW FOREST NOTES AND CAPTURES, 1920. 
By Hueu P. Jonss. 
(Continued from p. 48.) 
Osmia: This family is apparently very scarce here. None 
seen, although I made no special hunt for them. With the 
exception of parietina and leucomelana I have taken all the species 
in Cambs. 
Anthidium manicatum occurred in Lymington gardens. 
Melecta: Only M. armata; found in the greatest abundance 
at ‘‘ Perry Wood” (Brockenhurst), in May and June. Antho- 
phora retusa and A. pilipes from same locality, the former much 
the commonest, reversing the usual order, whilst A. quadrimacu- 
lata was quite plentiful on banks at Norley Wood and other 
places, but always apart from Sarapoda bimaculata, even when 
the latter is found in the same gravel-pit as at Setley, each 
species keeping to its own corner. The plaintive high-pitched 
hum of these two chubby little bees is quite a characteristic of 
the heathsin August. It may be my fancy, but bimaculata seems 
to possess a shriller note than its ally. 
Psithyrus: Ps. rupestris (males only taken), Ps. barbutellus, 
Ps. vestalis (the latter very commonly). 
Bombus: B. venustus, agrorum, hortorum, lapidarius and 
terrestris were all fairly common, but such species as sylvarum, 
pratorum and derhamellus were rather unaccountably absent. I 
used to take pratorum in great abundance at raspberry flowers 
in a Cambridge garden. 
A few males of B. jonellus from heaths complete my list of 
Aculeates. 
Diprera.—Even the “ forest fly’’ was scarce this summer, 
and I have few species to record. ‘Typical forest things such as 
Tabanus bovinus, and Echinomyia grossa were totally absent in 
places where they were abundant in 1919. 7’. bovinus I only 
found at Lyndhurst in July, but a solitary ¢ (?) was heard at 
Park Hill in August. What a difference compared with last year 
when collectors were almost driven out of some enclosures by 
the bites of Chrysops, Tabanus, etc. Therioplectes tropicus and 
Tabanus maculicornis, however, were exceptions to the general 
rule, both being unusually abundant in the spring; the former 
being especially so at Rhinefield, completely routing my sister, 
who was there with me at the time. 
After June, however, it was a rare thing to see a T'abanid of 
any description, everyone commenting on the fact that there were 
so few flies. Unfortunately, one could not enjoy the absence as 
everything else seemed to have disappeared also, notably those 
fine aberrations of D. paphiaand L. sibylla, the presence of which 
one had come to look upon as an annual event of increasing 
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