INSECTS 



garden pot containing about 4 inches of prepared soil. On the soil 

 around the willow I laid some close-growing moss and a tuft of grass. I 

 took a suitable piece or two of bark, which I fastened to the willow with 

 three or four strong pins, to serve the ants for a nest. Over all I raised 

 a bag of close-woven white leno, resting on a contrivance of wire, and 

 fastened tightly below the rim of the pot by string. Having made this 

 improvised home ready, I placed on the moss two or three scraps of fresh 

 meat, some moist sugar and preserved fruit. The ants were turned into 

 it and after a day or two of unrest they took up their abode in the nest 

 and settled down. The meat and other edibles were often replaced by 

 fresh. The ants were often watched and seen to be using the food and 

 foraging. In July, seeing but little of them, I unpinned a part of the 

 nest and was surprised to see several larvs, upon and around which the 

 ants were gathered. Three weeks later I again looked into the nest and 

 was pleased to see several cocoons. During the last third of September, 

 twenty-one males were bred from these cocoons. 



ACULEATA 

 HETEROGTNA 



FoRMICIDi^ 



Formica rufa, Linn, (the Horse Ant). 

 Shrawley, Trench Woods, Wyre Forest, 

 etc. 



— sanguinea, Ltr. Wyre Forest ; common 



(Martineau) 



— exsecta, Nyl. Bewdley (Blatch) 



— fusca, Ltr. Temple Laughern, Worcester, 



etc. ; common in most localities 

 Lasius fuliginosus, Ltr. Lathe Lane 

 (Fletcher) ; Trench Woods (Mar- 

 tineau) 



— umbratus, Nyl. In bank of Severn, 



Lenchford (Fletcher) ; Bewdley 

 (Blatch) 



— flavus, De Geer. At foot of tree, 



Cotheridge (Fletcher) ; common in 

 fields everywhere 



— niger, Linn, (the Garden Ant) ; common 



generally 

 Formicoxenus nitidulus, Nyl. Bewdley 



(Blatch) 

 Stenamma westwoodii, Westw. Hallow 

 Leptothorax tuberum, Fab. Sides of Teme, 



Powick, Bransford 

 Myrmica rubra, Linn., race laevinodis, Nyl. 



Hallow, Stoulton 



— ruginodis, Nyl. Stoulton, 



Little Eastbury 



— scabrinodis, Nyl. Old 



Hills, Monkwood 



FOSSORES 



MuTILLIDi* 



Myrmosa melanocephala, Fab. Crown East 

 Wood (Fletcher) ; Moseley (Bradley) 



Sapygid^ 



Sapyga clavicornis, Latr. On a wooden 

 rail. Crown East 



PoMPILIDiE 



Pompilus cinctellus. Spin. Wyre Forest 

 (Martineau) 



— plumbeus, Fab. Crown East 



— niger, Fab. Moseley ; common (Bradley) 



— viaticus, Linn. Wyre Forest (Bradley) 



— spissus, Schiodte. Wyre Forest; common 



(Martineau) 



— gibbus, Fab. Wyre Forest, Droitwich, 



Moseley, etc. (Bradley) 



— unguicularis, Thorns. Moseley (Bradley) 



— pectinipes, V. de Lind. Wyre Forest 



(Martineau) ; Moseley (Bradley) 

 Salius (S. G. Priocnemis, Schiodte), fuscus, 

 Linn. Hallow (Fletcher) ; Wyre 

 Forest, Malvern, Droitwich (Mar- 

 tineau) 



— affinis, V. de Lind. Oldbury Road 



— exaltatus. Fab. Grimley 



— notatulus, Saund. Wyre Forest (Mar- 



tineau) ; Moseley (Bradley) 



— obtusiventris, Schiodte. Middleyards 

 Agenia variegata, Linn. Monkwood 



Sphegid^ 



Trypoxylon figulus, Linn. In garden, 

 Worcester (Fletcher) ; Moseley (Brad- 

 ley) 



— clavicerum, Lep. Hallow 



— attenuatum, Sm. Crown East 

 Spilomena troglodytes, V. de Lind. In- 

 doors, Worcester 



Stigmus solskyi, Moraw. Hallow 



Pemphredon lugubris, Latr. Powick 



(Fletcher) ; Wyre Forest, Moseley 



(Bradley) 



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