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HYMENOPTERA. 

 Vespa vulgaris. 



We have had fewer wasps about than usual this year ; and 

 though I understand that is rather generally the case, it is 

 here partly attributable to my school children having brought 

 in Ij092 queens in the late spring, in response to a small 

 reward. I have done this for two years now. (E.F.L.) 



The Common Wasp was unusually abundant. Mr. T. J. 

 Meaby, of Canford, wrote me that by May 31 he had paid for 

 6,317 queens brought into the Canford Estate Office while 

 my notes are as follows : 



May 14 An immense number in the Poole District. 

 May 21 An immense number in the Canford District. 



They bid fair to be a perfect pest. 

 June 17 But were very reduced in number in Bere Wood 



on this date ; probably due to the frost on 



3 June. (W.P.C.) 



THYSANURA AND ORTHOPTERA. 



In response to a request for records on the Orders that 

 Mr. Haines is interested in, he sent me the following further 

 notes, which are reproduced verbatim, and mark a welcome 

 departure in our Insect Notes, which in the past have been 

 almost exclusively confined to lepidoptera. 



Thysanura and Orthoptera in Dorset. 



In case annotated records of certain species of the less 

 known orders of Insecta, occurring in Dorset, might be of 

 some interest, as yielding facts for determining distribution, 

 I have written the present short lists. I hope to improve 

 upon both their form and matter after the next year or two. 



