40 THE entomologist's recobd. 



chief districts that have been worked over. Out of the British total of 

 874 species, 282 are recorded as having occurred in Suffolk. As many 

 as 209 of these have been taken near Bury St. Edmunds, by Mr. W. 

 H. Tuck. Mr. Perkins has also worked out a large list for the neigh- 

 bourhood of Brandon and Mr. Morley himself for the district lying 

 around Ipswich. In addition, there are fourteen species of bees taken 

 by Kirby, which have not been met with in the county since his time 

 (about 100 years ago) . If these still exist in the county, some of them 

 ought to turn up, and searching for them ought to give a peculiar 

 interest and stimulant to the work of Suffolk hymenopterists. Halictus 

 Zams, taken by Kirby at Nacton, in Suffolk, is. still unique in the 

 collections of the British Museum- 



The long list of good Fossors testifies to the high value of Sufiblk as' 

 a field for collecting these insects, especially of the barren sands in the 

 Brandon district in the extreme north-west of the county, and of such 

 first-class localities as Lowestoft and Southwold, and other sandy spots 

 on the coast, where, no doubt, interesting discoveries still remain 

 to be made. The social wasps are well represented ; the hornet {V. 

 crabro) is generally distributed through the county. Odynerus is 

 represented by a list of ten species, the large antilope and the rare 

 gracilis being the most important. Among the bees, Kirby's Prosopis 

 dilatata is the first to call for notice. Though not recorded since 

 Smith took it on the flowers of bramble, and bred both sexes from 

 dock stems at Pakefield, near Lowestoft, in 1858, it is probably still 

 lurking somewhere about the county and should be looked for. 

 Sphecodes ruMcundus is an interesting species, which Mr. Tuck takes 

 near Bury St. Edmunds, in company Avith Andrena labialis. Halictus 

 laevigatus, scxnotatns and laevis (previously mentioned) were all cap- 

 tured and named by Kirby at Barham, but unfortunately they have 

 not been taken in Suffolk since his day. H.prasiiius and pwictatissimKs 

 are good insects that have occurred recently in the county. 38 Andrenas 

 are recorded in Mr. Morley's list ; Mr. Morley's ability as a collector 

 is shown by the fact that he has captured and re-established in the 

 Suffolk list, two of Kirby's Andrenae, viz., A. anynstior and A.proxima. 

 The latter species, of which a female fell to his net at Great Blakenham 

 in July, 1897, was a specially good find. Only one of Kirby's recog- 

 nised Andrenae now remains to be found — the interesting and excessively 

 rare A. tridentata. One of the best captures of recent years was a $ 

 of Nomada r/uttulata taken by Mr. Morley, near Ipswich, in 1897. 

 Previously this species had been regarded as a doubtful native of 

 Britain, on the strength of a single specimen, from an unknown 

 locality, in Mr. Saunders' collection. Ceratina cyanea has been seen 

 in the county once since Kirby took it at Barham. Chelostowa 

 (Eriades) campamdarum , Kirby, continues to be widely distributed in 

 Suffolk. Both sexes of Meyac/dle versicolor have been bred from an 

 old stump by Mr. Tuck, at Bury St. Edmunds. Nine Osmias are 

 recorded, but one is surprised that there is no record of the capture of 

 0. hicolor, aurulenta and spinidosa in the county since Kirby took 

 them. A male of the somewhat uncommon Psithyrus campestris was 

 found by Mr. Tuck in a nest of Bonihus latreillellxis ; this is interesting 

 as throwing light on the obscure associations of P. camj^estris. Among 

 the Bomhi the var. distinyuendus of B. latreillellus is worthy of note; it 

 seems to be widely distributed in the county. 



