126 News from the Magazines. 



*Bombus lapidarius Linn. Not as common as one might 

 expect, but still far from rare. Occurs generally. 



B. sylvarum Linn. Very sparingly, Great Ayton. 



B. derhamellus Kirby. Sparingly, but general in its occurrence. 



*B. pratorum Linn. Common everywhere. 



B. lapponicus Fab. Rare on Eston Moor, but quite common on 

 Great Ayton and Easby Moors, as well as in the open 

 spaces in Kildale Woods. This is probably our earliest 

 bee, as I see the workers in some numbers at bilberry 

 flowers. Anyone wanting an exercise in quickness of 

 hand should endeavour to net the little worker from the 

 flowers. Their quickness in turning in and vanishing 

 from the net can only be described as phenomenal. 



*B. terresiris Linn. Very common ; the var. lucorum seems to 

 predominate in the lowlands, and the var. virginalis on 

 the moors, the latter assuming an enormous size. Tj^pe 

 forms, as well as the two varieties, occur everywhere. 



Psithyrus vestalis Fourc. Common everywhere. 



P. barbutellus Kirby. General, but not so common as the 

 last species. 



P. campestris Panz. Not very common, but to be found every- 

 where. I have taken the black form on Eston Moor. 



P. quadricolor Lep. Only sparingly ; certainly not so common 

 as its association with B. pratorum would suggest. 



Andrena cineraria Linn. Very common, but exceedingly 

 capricious in its appearance at bilberry in Lonsdale. 



A. minutida Kirby. Also common on bilberry on Eston Moor 

 and in Lonsdale. 



A. clarkella Kirby. Common enough on Eston Moor. 



A. wilkella Kirby. Also abundant on Eston Moor. 



*Sirex gigas Linn. Whilst I often get specimens of this sawfry 

 taken in Middlesbrough brought to me for identification, 

 I have also beaten it in some numbers from larch and fir 

 at Eston. I have also, on two occasions, found moribund 

 females with their saws fixed in larch trunks, as if they 

 had been unable to withdraw them. 



*S. nociilio Fab. Precisely the same remarks apply to this as 

 to S. gigas, except that it occurs less freely. It, too, 

 has been taken at Eston with its saws fixed in a larch trunk. 



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The Irish Naturalist double number for November and December, is 

 entirely occupied by an author's index of the Irish Naturalist from Vol. i 

 to 25, by Alice Scharf . The readers of the journal will find the index very 

 useful. 



In The Entomologist for March, Mr. Mainbridge describes a new variety 

 plumbosa of Aplecta nebulosa (see The Naturalist, March, p. 94) ; Mr. L. W. 

 Newman gives ' Notes on rearing Macrothylacia (Bombyx) rubi/ and Mr. 

 Claude Morley continues his ' Garden Notes.' 



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