NOTES ON COLLECTING. 15 



■but I believe now that they Avere the larvas of Eurhodope [HhodopJiaea) 

 suavella. It was getting dark, and I was in a great hurry, when I 

 came across them. Among other species which have not been men- 

 tioned I found Tortrix [Aphelia) osseana common among rough herbage 

 at Bathford, Epiblema (Ephippiphorq) tri;/eiirina)ia among ragwort, 

 Epermenia [Chauliodas) chaerophyllella, one specimen at Combe Down. 

 The n:iines of Lithocolletis lantanella were abundant in the viburnum 

 bushes, in some of the lanes. This will I think conclude my notes 

 from Bath, as I left the city on July 3rd. — Alfred Sich. December 

 5th, 1918. 



Some Aculeate Hymenoptera from Leicestershire in 1918. — . 

 Leicestershire naturalists may be interested in these notes on a year's 

 casual collecting of bees and wasps in that county, since it is one of 

 the shires to which practically no attention has been paid by 

 Hymenopterists. 



It has been a poor year for Aculeates here ; the sallow bloomed in 

 wet weather and, although there was a fine show of Scnecio in the 

 autumn, it did not bring me a single bee. I had very few captures in 

 August and practically none afterwards. 



The most productive localities were (a) Market Bosworth, (b) 

 Peckleton Common, (c) Swithland Wood, (d) Great Glen and (e) 

 Bransford Bridge, near Lutterworth. To these must be added (f) 

 the Qutwoods, Atherstone, just over the county border in Warwick- 

 shire. My collecting was largely limited to these places and was 

 intermittent on account of military duties ; the list is therefore in no 

 way representative ; but, since it adds somewhat to the records for 

 Leicestershire, it may be worth publication. It is worthy of notice 

 that many species recorded by Mr. Morice for Eugby occur also in 

 Leicestershire, while several of the rarer captures have already been , 

 recorded for this county in Mr. Bouskell's list in the Victoria History 

 of Leicestershire. 



In the following list the letters after each species indicate the 

 localities named above, and those marked * are included in Mr, 

 Bouskell's list. The nomenclature is that followed by the late Mr. 

 Saunders, whose kindness to me some years ago I shall always bear in 

 remembrance. 



Myrwosa melanocephala, Fab. c ; Sapyga 3-pimctatq, Fab. a ; Pom- 

 pilus minutulus, Dabl, d ; Saliiis exaltatus, Fab., c, d : S. parvulus, 

 Dahl., b ; Agenia variegata, Ij.,c; Tachytes pectinipes, L., f ; Trypoxylon 

 figulus, L., a, d, c ; * T. clavicerum, Lep., c, d ; T. attenvatum, Sm., a; 

 Pemphredon lugubris, Latr., b, d ; P. shuckardi, Moraw., a ; /'. lethifer, 

 Shuck., a ; P. morio, V. Lind, d ; Diodontiis tristis. V. Lind, a ; 

 Passaloeciis insignia, V. Lind, a, d ; Psen pallipes, Pz., a, d ; ■■Gorytes 

 mystaceus, L., d ; Oxybelus uniglumis, L., a, b ; Crabro clavipes, L., a ; 

 c, d; * C leucostomiis, L., a, d ; C. capiitosus, Shuck., a; C. podagricus, 

 V. Lind, c, d ; C. varius, Lep., a. b, f ; C. elongatulus, V. Lind, d, 

 e, f ; C. 4-maculatus, Dhl., b ; '■' C. dimidiatus, Fab., a, c, d, f ; C. 

 chrysostomus, Lep., a, b, d, f ; C. cribrarius, L., b ; * C. interriqjtiis, 

 De G., a; C. albilabris, Fab., f ; '^^Vespa vulgaris, L., a ; '•'¥. germanica, 

 Fab., a, d ; *F. rufa, L., a, b, d ; *y. sylvestris, Scop., a, d; '"V. norve- 

 gica, Fab., c ; " Odynerus spinipes, L., a, f ; * 0. callosits, Thoms, a, c ; 

 * 0. parietum, L., a ; 0. pictus. Curt., a, b, e, f ; 0. 3-marginatus, Zett., 



