Bramble-Dwellers 



ants; and It is also an interesting subject of 

 study to the entomologist who, in the winter, 

 pruning-shears in hand, can gather in the 

 hedge-rows a faggot rich in small industrial 

 wonders. Visiting the bramble-bushes has 

 long been one of my favourite pastimes during 

 the enforced leisure of the winter-time; and it 

 is seldom but some new discovery, some un- 

 expected fact makes up to me for my torn 

 fingers. 



My list, which is still far from being com- 

 plete, already numbers nearly thirty species of 

 bramble-dwellers in the neighbourhood of my 

 house; other observers, more assiduous than 

 I, exploring another region and one covering 

 a wider range, have counted as many as fifty. 

 I give at foot an Inventory of the species 

 which I have noted.^ 



^Bramble-dwelling insects in the neighbourhood of 

 Serignan (Vaucluse): 



1. MELLIFEROUS HYMENOPTERA.—Osmia tri- 

 dentata, Duf. and Per. — Osrnia detrita, Perez. — Anthi- 

 dium scapulare, Latr. — Heriades rubicola, Perez. — 

 Prosopis confusa, Schenck. — Ceratina chalcites, Germ. — 

 Ceratina albilabris, Fab. — Ceratina callosa, Fab. — Cera- 

 tina ctrrulea, Villers. 



2. HUNTING HYMENOPTERA.— So/^MW vagus, 

 Fab. (provisions, Diptera). — Solenius lapidarius, Lep, 

 (provisions, Spiders?). — Cemonus unicolor, Panz. (pro- 

 visions, Plant-lice). — Psen atratus (provisions, Black 



