INSECTS 



Kirby's H. laevigatas and H. sexnotaius, originally described from their author's parish of Barham, have 

 not been since met with in Suffolk. H. prasinus has been found about Brandon and Bury St. Edmunds, 

 and in the latter locality H. pauxillus occurs rarely in flowers of Inula dysenterica. Of H. laevts, 

 Saunders writes in 1896, 'the only British exponent of this species was taken at Nacton, Suffolk, as 

 recorded by Kirby in his Monographia ' ; Kirby says simply ' Barhamiae semel capta, iterum in 

 Nacton, Suffolciae ' ; this certainly refers to two distinct specimens which, if I be not mistaken, 

 both still exist in Kirby's collection in the British Museum. There are some fifty species of 

 Andrena in Britain, and forty have been found in this county ; A. pilipes is widely distributed ; 

 A. thoracha and A. cineraria are distinctly rare ; and the only occurrence of A. florea is that of a 

 female on Ruhui flower in the Bentley Woods in August in 1896. Though A.nigriceps is common 

 cnougL from July to August, Kirby's record of it, ' Barhamiae. Aprili ineunte, 1800,' must surely 

 bean error or refer to a distinct kind. Mr. Hocking tells me that he has confirmed Kirby's record 

 A. tridentata, at Melton and Barham, by the capture of an example in Suffolk in 190 1 ; it occurs 

 upon ragwort and appears to have been elsewhere observed only at Bournemouth, Christchurch, and 

 Norwich. A. coitana, named after Coyte of Ipswich, is often in the utmost profusion on Heracleum 

 flowers at Southwold^ &c. ; and the very rare A. proximo has turned up singly at Barham, Copdock, 

 and Great Blakenham.' A. fulvago^ not a rare species in most parts of Britain, still rests in our 

 county list upon Kirby's record of 1799 ; he says he has usually found it scarce about Barham at 

 the beginning of June, but that in 1799 it was very plentiful. I once found A. similis in the 

 Bentley Woods ; it was beaten from a white poplar in the middle of June. 



Panurgus calcaratus has only been found at Martlesham Heath by Kirby ; but Paget, Smith, 

 and Piffard have all taken P. ursinus. Nomada fucata and A'^. Lathhuriana have not been observed 

 for over a hundred years; and N. lineola seems very scarce. In May 1897, I was so fortunate as 

 to capture the second British example of T>} . guttulata, sitting upon a composite flower in Belstead 

 Woods ; the first, without locality, is in Mr. Edward Saunders' collection.' Perkins has found 

 N. bifida about Brandon, and Tuck N. horealis at Tostock in April. Coelioxys vectis has occurred 

 at Lowestoft (but not at Tos'ock) ; C. rufescem has turned up in several localities, and its variety 

 umbrina at Lowestoft. Megachile maritima is still common, with M. argentata in its original 

 locality near Landguard Fort at Felixstowe, and has also been found inland at Rougham, Bungay, 

 and Brandon. M. versicolor was once bred by Tuck at Tostock,* and is widely distributed in the 

 Breck district. We have all the British Osmiae, excepting O. parietina, which is confined to Wales 

 and the North ; the local 0. pilicornis has occurred at Lowestoft, Copdock, and once to me in June 

 (not September) in Brantham Dale. 0. xanthomelana from Somersham and O. auruhnta from 

 Henley, still stand upon Kirby's records, though that of 0. spinulosa from Witnesham and Little 

 Blakenham has been confirmed by Tuck, who annually found it at Tostock. The three species of 

 Stelis frequent the Breck sands ; and I have recently taken Anthidium manicatum commonly at South- 

 wold at flowers of Petasites officinalis. For six years my single female of Anthophora retusa was the 

 only known Suffolk specimen ; then Tuck took one at Thurston, and subsequently fair quantities 

 from two colonies at Bungay in June 190 1, the males occurring at Geranium pyrenaicum and 

 Lotus corniculatus : lately it has again been found at Bentley Woods and Copdock. Sarapoda has 

 not been found for a century, nor, indeed, has Bombus Cullumanus ; but B. Smithianus is widely 

 distributed and not uncommon about Brandon, and the common humble bees are frequent 

 everywhere. 



I shall conclude the Aculeata with a list of the only thirteen species which have been added to 

 the county catalogue since it was published by me in 1899 ; and indeed with so full a list one 

 cannot expect to have much new information to impart in this respect. 



Additions, 1900- 1907 



Tiphia minuta. Males singly on Angelica sylvestris Odynerus bifasciatus. Several found by Tuck at 



flowers at Brandon and Tuddenham Fen, and Tostock (cf. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1902, p. 106) 



upon Heracleum sphondylium at Lackford Prosopis palustris. First described from Suffolic in 



Bridge, in Aug. 1900 Ent. Mo. Mag. xxxvi, 49 ; I have found it 



Calicurgus hyalinatus. Found upon young poplar in the utmost profusion in Tuddenham Fen, as 



singly in Assington Thicks, in July 1902 well as at Brandon, Icklingham, and the Nezu 



Psen unicolor. Taken in a marshy spot at Tostock by Forest 



Mr. Tuck — cornuta. A single female was taken at Timworth, 



Gorytes laticinctus. Taken at Barton Mills in August near Bury St. Edmunds, in July (cf. Ent. Mo. 



1 90 1 (A. H. Hamm) Mag. 1907, p. 67) 



Crabro anxius. A female on parsley at Tostock in Halictus zonulus. One found at HolUsley early in 



Aug. (cf Norf. Trans. 1897) Aug., by Mr. Hocking 



' Cf Ent. Mo. Mag. Ixxxiii, 265. ' Ibid, xxxiii, 280. 



' Cf. Trans. Nor/, and Norw. Nat. Soc. and Ent. Mo. Mag. 1894. 



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