A HISTORY OF WORCESTERSHIRE 



Leptocerus alboguttatus, Hag. By a brook, 

 Cotheridge 



— aterrimus, De G., Stph. A pool, Cothe- 

 ■idge 



I By the Severn 



By Laughern Brook 

 The Severn 

 ^ , L. The Tetne and the 

 Avon 



— azurea, L. The Teme 



Triaenodes bicolor, Curt. By a pool, Cotbe- 



— cinereus, Curt. 



— albifrons, L. 



— bilineatus, L. 



— dissimilis, Stph. 

 Mystacides nigra. 



— consperta, Ramb. Bank of Teme 

 CEcetis lacustris, Pict. Comes to 'light' ; by 



nearly stagnant water 



— notata, Ramb. Two, by Severn^ Lench- 



ford 



— testacea, Curt, Banks of Teme, Cotheridge 

 Setodes tineiformis, Curt. By the Severn, 



Camp 



— interrupta, F. Severn and Teme 



— punctata, F. One, by the Severn, Grimley 

 Beraea pullata. Curt. A brooklet, Cotheridge 

 Beraeodes minuta, L. Laughern Brook 

 Hydropsyche pellucidula. Curt. By the 



Teme 



— augustipennis, Curt. Teme, Cotheridge 



— guttata, Pict. The Teme, Bramford 



— instabilis. Curt. Broadwas 



— lepida, Pict. Severn and Avon 



Wormaldia subnigra, McLach. By a rill out 

 of bank of Teme 



Plectrocnemia conspersa. Curt. Comer Gar- 

 dens 



Polycentropus flavomaculatus, Pict. Teme 



— multiguttatus. Curt. The Teme, Powick 

 Holocentropus dubius, Ramb. The Teme, 



Bramford 



— picicornis, Stph. Pond, Grimley 



— stagnalis, Albarda. Marsh, Grimley 

 Cyrnus trimaculatus, Curt. By rivers gener- 

 ally 



Tinodes waeneri, L. Laughern Brook 

 Lype phaeopa, Stph. Avon and Severn 

 Psychomyia pusilla, F. The Teme, Cothe- 

 ridge 

 Chimarrha marginata, L. Two or three, by 



the Teme 

 Rhyacophila dorsalis, Curt. By the Teme 

 Agapetus fuscipes, Curt. By rills generally 



— comatus, Pict. One or two, Teme 

 Agraylea multipunctata, Curt. To 'light,' 



Worcester 

 Allotrichia pallicornis, Eaton. One at 'light,' 



Pitmaston 

 Hydroptila sparsa, Curt. The Severn, near 



TVorcester 



— forcipata, Eaton. By the Teme, Brans- 



ford 

 Oxyethira costalis. Curt. To ' light,' IVor- 



HYMENOPTERA 



It would seem that this order of insects has not been worked at in 

 this county until my time, so there is little to be said in a preliminary 

 way. The order contains creatures only second in interest to the human 

 species. Parthenogenesis is very common among the Sawflies, and a 

 similar case came under my notice in the Ants. A small ant {Leptothorax 

 tuberum), consisting of but a few individuals in any one community, 

 chooses for its nest some rather prominent piece of bark, more or less 

 hollowed on the inner side (if indeed the creature does not form the 

 cavity), on a tree in a retired thicket — poplar and maple are the only 

 trees I have found it on — in which to set up its home. In the begin- 

 ning of April, 1887, I came across such a piece of bark on a scrubby 

 maple, which with my trowel I chipped off, exposing to view a little 

 group of twenty or thirty of these creatures. As I had no males and 

 only one wingless female in my collection, it occurred to me to carry 

 these ants home and try what could be done with them in captivity. 



I tried to get the ants into a tin box, but only succeeded with the 

 greater part ; the female, owing to the rough bark and projecting shoots 

 of the tree, escaped me and fell to the long grass at the roots and was 

 lost. On reaching home I took a short piece of green willow, the thick- 

 ness of a man's arm and some 10 inches long, and stood it up in a large 



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