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HYMENOPTERA. 



Notes on Hymenoptera. 



By Frederick Smith. 



I HAVE no long enumeration of species of aculeate Hyme- 

 noptera to record, but I consider it fortunate that I am able 

 to add two species to our list of British bees ; last year one 

 new bee and one wasp were described, neither ,of these 

 being discoveries of my own ; and this year I am happy to 

 announce the two discoveries to be those of well-known 

 Entomologists, and valuable correspondents of my own. 



In addition to this I am able to give a list of species and 

 their localities at various spots on the coast of the most 

 beautiful county in England, that being, I need scarcely add, 

 Devonshire. There are sevei'al, hitherto very rare species of 

 Hymenoptera, taken only as yet, I believe, by Dr. Leach in 

 that county ; but all those were found, we are told, near 

 Kingsbridge, on the southern part of the coast; and, from 

 information that I have obtained, some of them are from a 

 part probably unvisited by any Hymenopterist since Di*. 

 Leach's time ; I am told that the Doctor collected frequently 

 over an uncultivated tract of country at Bolt Head, about 

 five miles from Kingsbridge, and that the geological forma- 

 tion of this particular district is different to that of the sur- 

 rounding country. 



I certainly found none of those rare species, but, judging 

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