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THE ANNALS 
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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 
[NINTH SERIES.) 
oer GREE ee per litora spargite muscum, 
Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite fontes: 
Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores: 
Floribus et pictum, dive, replete canistrum. = 
At vos, o Nymphe Craterides, ite sub undas; 
Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco f ! AR 
Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas JAN 
Ferte, Dex pelagi, et pingui conchylia suceo.’ 
N. Parthenii Giannettasi, EclyJ. 
No. 37. JANUARY 1921. 
I.—Fossil Arthropods in the British Museum.—V. Oligocene 
Ilymenoptera from the Isle of Wight. By T. D. A. 
CocKkERELL, University of Colorado * 
Tue British Museum contains a very large collection of 
fossil insects from the Oligocene of Gurnet or Gurnard 
Bay, in the Isle of Wight. ‘These are labelled as coming 
from two sources, the Brodie and A’?Court Smith collections. 
The Rev. P. B. Brodie, in his account of the Is'e of Wight 
insect beds published by the Warwickshire Naturalists’ and 
Archeologists’ Field Club in 1878, says :— 
“‘T am indebted to Mr. A’Court Smith for specimens kindly 
presented to me, and for others in exchange, and for an 
account of the strata from which they were procured and 
other particulars connected with them. By his long 
residence in the Isle of Wight, and diligent search for the 
fossils of the district, he has acquired an intimate knowledge 
of the geology, and obtained the first and largest collection 
of British Tertiary fossil Insects yet recorded.” 
* T am greatly indebted to Dr. A. S. Woodward for permission to 
study the British Museum series, and for facilities at the Museum. 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 9. Vol. vii. 1 
