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E. euryale.—Here and there flitting over alder bushes, just above 
the village. 
E. goante.—Common in the same localities, but going much 
further up, and even flying over the skrees. 
E. gorge, with EH. alecto, var. dwponchelt, and occasionally of the 
ab. erynnys. 
E.. tyndarus.—Not so common as usual ; all of the var. casszoides. 
E. lappona.—Common, but wasted, even high up. 
January, 1914. 
DORSET HYMENOPTERA. 
By FB. By Haines, D:P.H., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 
Tue following are some of the less generally recorded 
Aculeates, noted by me, in this neighbourhood of heath, wood, 
and down :— 
Formica sanguinea, Latr., Parley heath; Ponera contracta, 
Latr., two workers, May 28rd, 1918, West Lulworth cliffs ; 
Myrmica sulcinodis, Nyl., one female, September 9th, 1913, 
Ringstead. Mutilla europea, L., not infrequent on the heaths. 
In 1911 I took a fine female as early as May 27th at Morden, 
and in 1908 I took a female at Moreton on May 29th. My 
latest date is October 7th, 1912—a rather large male, on West 
Knighton heath. At Arne, on August 25th, 1913, I found a 
nest of Bombus jonellus, Kirb., in a disquieted state, attributed 
by me to a high tide having reached it. Noting that only 
workers were to be seen, I carried a portion—only 4% in. in 
circumference—home. From both larger and smaller cocoons 
M. europea emerged through round, jagged holes: thirteen 
females between August 29th and September 5th, four males 
between August 29th and September 10th, but no B. jonellus. 
I still have the fragment under observation. Methoca ichneu- 
monides, Latr., one female, September 11th, 1910, on Godlingston 
heath; Pompilus unicolor, Spin., one female, September 3rd, 
1910, Arne; Salius affinis, V. de Lind., two females, July 27th, 
1912, on West Knighton heath, and one female, August 38rd, 
1912, on Studland heath; Ceropales maculatus, F., common in 
August, on Angelica; Stigmus solskyi, Mor.; Passalecus cor- 
niger, Shuck. ; Mimesa equestris, F., commoner than M. bicolor, 
Jur., July, on Heraclewum; Gorytes campestris, L.; G. quadri- 
fasciatus, F.; G. laticinctus, Lep., one female, Moreton, July 12th, 
1910, one female June 22nd, 1912, and one female and three 
males in July, 1912, on Ginanthe and Heracleum; Nysson inter- 
ruptus, F., end of May and June, on Anthriscus and Chero- 
phyllum; Mellinus subulosus, F., Cerceris 5-fasciata, L. I have 
two specimens of an Oxybelus, quite similar to the common 
O. uniglumis, L., but with pale mandibles; I think only a 
variety of it. Crabro tibialis, F.; C. capitosus, Shuck.; C. sig- 
ENTOM.-—APRIL, 1914. L 
