INSECTS 



ANTHOPHILA (Beet) (continued) 

 JCUTILINGUES (continued) 



ANDRENIDAE (continued) 



Nomada borealis, Zett. Treswell Wood (Thornley) 



ochrostoma, Kirb. Bukoell Forest; Lang ford 



Moor 



fabriciana, Linn. C/arborough (Thornley); Strel- 



ley ; Widmerpool ; Epper stone 



flavoguttata, Kirb. Treswell Wood (Thornley) ; 



Strelley 



API DAE 



Epeolus productus, Thorns. Very common in certain 

 localities 



rufipes, Thorns. Bfidworth 

 Chelostoma florisomne, Linn. Not uncommon 

 Coelioxys rufescens, Lep. S. Leverton (Thornley) 



elongata, Lep. Bulwell Forest ; Lang ford Moor 

 Megachile willughbiella, Kirb. Newark (?) (Had- 



field) ; 'Nottingham, 1905 (Thornley) 



circumcincta, Lep. S. Leverton (Thornley) ; 



Button, nr. Retford 



centuncularis, Linn. S. Leverton (Thornley) ; 



Nottingham 



Osmia rufa, Linn. Nottingham, Worksop, and Retford 

 districts, common. In 1898 the writer bred 

 forty-eight specimens from a nest in the door- 

 lock of an outbuilding in Nottingham. Of this 

 number forty-three were males, and only five 

 females a remarkable numerical discrepancy 

 in the sexes. The nest contained fifteen other 

 cocoons from which the bees failed to emerge, 

 and these on investigation were found to con- 



ANTHOPHILA (Bees) (continued) 



4CUTILINGUES (continued) 



APIDAE (continued) 



tain nine males, five females, and a larva all 



dead. The high mortality among the females 



is noteworthy 

 Osmia caerulescens, Linn. S. Leverton and Treswell 



Wood (Thornley) 

 [ fulviventris, Panz., and O. aurulenta, Panz., are 



both represented in the Hadfield collection, 



and are probably from the Newark district] 

 Melecta armata, Panz. Treswell Wood (Thornley) 

 Anthophora retusa, Linn. Nottingham (Davis, in 



Loudon's Mag. N. H., vol. v, 1832) 



pilipes, Fab. Rather common 



Psithyrus rupestris, Fab. Retford (Pegler) ; Treswell 

 Wood (Thornley) 



vestalis, Fourc. Occurs throughout the county 



campestris, Panz. Retford (Pegler) 



quadricolor, Lep. S. Leverton and Grove (Thorn- 



ley) 

 Bombus venustus, Sm. Moderately common 



agrorum, Fab. Common everywhere 



hortorum, Linn. Common. The var. harris- 



ellus, Kirb., is not rare 



sylvarum, Linn. S. Leverton (Thornley) ; Bunny; 



Widmerpool 



lapidarius, Linn. Of common occurrence 



pratorum, Linn. Of common occurrence 



- terrestris, Linn. Both the varieties, virginalis and 



lucorum, are common 



Apis mellifica, Linn. Abundant in a domesticated 

 state 



COLEOPTERA 



The Coleoptera or Beetles constitute a very large and distinct order of insects, easily dis- 

 tinguished by their firm integument, and especially by the hard and rigid character of the fore- 

 wings (elytra), which are not used for flight, but serve as protecting shields for the soft upper 

 surface of the abdomen and for the thin membranous posterior wings which are folded together 

 beneath the elytra and are alone concerned with flight. 



The beetles of Nottinghamshire have been well worked out, thanks mainly to the exertions 

 of the Rev. Alfred Thornley, M.A., who has devoted many years to the investigation of the 

 Coleoptera of the county, and who has generously placed all his records at the writer's disposal. 

 The rich district of Sherwood Forest perhaps one of the best collecting grounds in the country 

 has been thoroughly investigated by the Rev. Canon Fowler, the Rev. A. Matthews, Mr. W. G. 

 Blatch, Mr. J. Kidson Taylor, Dr. G. W. Chaster, Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin, and others, who 

 have discovered many rare species in this region, some of which have not occurred elsewhere in 

 the British Isles. The neighbourhood of Nottingham has been successfully worked by Mr. W. E. 

 Ryles and others, and Messrs. Stephen Pegler and J. T. Houghton have collected extensively in 

 the Retford and Worksop districts respectively. Many good species have also been discovered in 

 the extreme north of the county by the Rev. T. C. B. Chamberlin. 



The following list comprises some 1,280 species out of an approximate total for Britain of 

 3,300 species. Localities are given for the rarer or more local species only. Where a locality is 

 given without an authority the species is to be regarded as of frequent occurrence in that locality, 

 or has been seen there by the writer. The arrangement and nomenclature followed are those of 

 Sharp and Fowler's Catalogue of British Coleoptera. 



CICINDELIDAE 

 Cicindela campestris, L. 



CARABIDAE 



Cychrus rostratus, L. Aspley Woods, Nottingham 



(Ryles) 

 Carabus catenulatus, Scop. Sherwood Forest (W. H. 



Freestone) ; Worksop (J. T. Houghton) 



CARABIDAE (continued) 

 Carabus nemoralis, Mull. 



violaceus, L. 



granulatus, L. 



monilis, Fab. 

 Notiophilus biguttatus, Fab. 



substriatus, Wat. ^Nottingham (Ryles) ; S. Lev- 



quadripunctatus, Dej.j erton (Thornley) 



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