A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



SPHEGIDJE 



Astata stigma, Panz. One of the earliest 



records in Britain of this, till recently 



rare, species was made by B. Cooke 



(June 1879) from specimens taken by 



him at Southport. It is one of the 



most noteworthy of our local wasps 



Trypoxylon figulus, L. Bowden 



Ammophila hirsuta, Scop.) Occur on the 



lutaria, F. / sandhills 

 Diodontus minutus, F. Manchester district 

 Psen pallipes, Panz. 

 Gorytes mystaceus, L. Generally dis- 

 tributed, but not common 



Oxybelus uniglumis, L. Southport and 



near Manchester 

 Crabro podagricus, V. d. Lind. Hazle- 



giove near Manchester 



DIPLOPTERA 



VESPID^E 



Vespa crabro, L. One nest of this usu- 

 ally southern species is recorded from 

 the county, found at Hawkshead 

 near Coniston, and now in Owen's 

 College Museum, Manchester 



norvegica, F. Not infrequent in pine 



woods throughout the county 



EuMENID^E 



Odynerus, callosus, Thorns. Rainhill 



pictus, Curt. Bolton 



trimarginatus, Zett. Near Manchester 



sinuatus, F. 



ANTHOPHILA 



COLLETIDJE 



Colletes succinta, L. Among heather, on 

 many of the mosses 



fodiens, Kirb. Southport 



daviesana, Sm. Banks of Mersey, Bollin, 



etc. 



cunicularia, L. This species was first 

 recorded as British from specimens 

 taken at Wallasey in Cheshire. The 

 first captor was the Rev. H. H. Hig- 

 gins (May 1855), who however did 

 not publish his discovery. In 1867 

 the bee was taken by N. Cooke of 

 Birkenhead, and recorded by F. 

 Smith (E.M.M. 1869), the locality 

 being erroneously given as Ventnor. 

 Since then it has occurred freely 

 along the Lancashire coast from 

 Crosby as far north as Blackpool, and 

 it also seems to occur sporadically in- 

 land 



Prosopis communis, Nyl. Fairly common 



signata, Panz. 



confusa, Nyl. }) 



ANDRENID^ 



Halictus laevigatus, Kirb. Near Manchester 



villosulus, Kirb. 



atricornis, Sm. Is another local bee of 



considerable interest. When first 

 discovered by B. Cooke at Hazle- 

 grove near Manchester it was not 

 only new to Britain, but new to 

 science (Ent. An. 1870, p. 26). The 

 species has since been recorded from 

 Stretford and from Whalley in Lanca- 

 shire as well as from other localities, 

 in the Midlands, but it still remains 

 exclusively British 



Other species of the genus re- 

 corded from Lancashire are : 



minutissimus, Kirb. 



tumulorum, L. 



morio, F. 



Sphecodes pilifrons, Thorns. Hazlegrove 

 Southport 



Andrena fulvicrus, Kirb. Is only recorded 

 from Rainhill near Liverpool. The fol- 

 lowing species, together with others 

 of general distribution, have been 

 recorded from the Manchester or 

 Southport districts 



cineraria, L. 



angustior, Kirb. 



helveola, L. 



humilis, Imh. 



labialis, Kirb. 



minutula, Kirb. 



nana, Kirb. 



wilkella, Kirb. 



Dasypoda hirtipes, Lat. Occurs on the 

 sandhills and also inland near Man- 

 chester 



Nomada. The following of the less 

 common species of the genus have 

 been recorded, principally from near 

 Manchester : 



jacobasae, Panz. 



lathburiana, Kirb. 



lateralis, Panz. 



ochostroma, Kirb. 



ferruginata, Kirb. 



fabriciana, L. 

 APIDJE 



Epeolus productus, Thorns. Near Man- 

 chester 



Chelostoma florisomne, L. Rainhill 

 Ccelioxysquadridentata,L."| Occur on sand- 



elongata, Lep. / hills 

 Megachile maritima, KirbA 



willughbiella, Kirb. I Qc f cur not . In - 

 - circumcincta' Lep. J fre 1 uentl y 

 Osmia fulviventris, Panz. Crosby 

 Anthidium manicatum, L. Near Man- 

 chester, Rainhill 



