16 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



a, f ; 0. S-fasciatus, Oliv., a, b, c, d ; ^ 0. parietinus, L., a, b, d, f ; 0. 

 sinuatus. Fab., c, d. 



Colletes daviesana, Sm., a, c ; '^Prosojns communis, Nyl., a, d ; P. 

 hyalinata, Sm., a ; P. hrevicornis, Nyl., a ; Sphecodes gihbus, L., c. ; 8. 

 subquadratus, Sm., c, f ; 8. affinis, v. Hag., b, c ; '■'Halictns rubicimdus, 

 Chris., a, b, c, d, f ; *i?. cylindricus, Fab., b, c, d, e, f ; H. albipes, 

 Kirb. ; H. jmuxUIus, Schenok, e ; H. pimctatissimus, Schenck, f ; H. 

 nitidiuscidus, Kirb., a, f ; *H. tumulornm, L., b, f ; H.. smeathmanellus, 

 Kirb., a; R. morio, Fab., a, b, c, f ; H. leiicopits, Kirb., a, c ; ^'-Ayidrena 

 albicans, Kirb., a, c; '"A. rosea var. trimmerana, Kirb., a, c ; A. nitida, 

 Fourc, a ; *^. fulva, Sch., a ; *A. clarkella, Kirb., a, b, c ; A. 

 nigroaenea, Kirb., a ; *^. gwynana, Kirb., a, c, d ; *^4. praecox, Scop., 

 c ; ''''A. cingidata. Fab., e, f ; '^A. chrysosceles, Kirb., a ; A. hiimilis, 

 Imhoff, f. ; A. nana, Kirb., a, c, d ; A. dorsata, Kirb., b, c ; A. ivilkella, 

 Kirb., b, f ; Nomada roberjeotiana, Pz., c; */¥. succincta, Pz,, a, b, c, f ; 

 *IV. alternata, Kirb., a, c, e, f ; N. lathburiana, Kirb., f ; *A\ ruficornis, 

 L., e, f ; N. bifida. Thorns., a, b, c, f; '*N. ocJirostoma, Kirb., b, f; 

 ■^'N. fabriciana, L., f; "^'Chelostoma jiorisomne, L., a, d, f; Coelioxys 

 4-dentata, L., a ; C. rufescens, Lep., d ; C. elongata, Lep., a ; C. acu- 

 minata, Nyl., a; Megachile willughbiella, Kirb., d, e. ; *M. circumcincta, 

 Lep., f ; M. ligniseca, Kivh., d; *M. centuncularis, L., a, d; *Osmia 

 rufa, L., a, c ; 0. xantliomelana, Kirb., f ; 0. caerulescens, L., a, f 

 0. fulviventris, Pz., a, f ; 0. spinulosa, Kirb., d ; Anthidium manicatum 

 L., d ; ^Melecta armata, Pz., a, c ; "^ Anthophora pilipes. Fab., a ; A 

 /urcato, Pz., a, d ; '''Psithyrus rupestris. Fab., d; '^'P. vestalis, Fourc. 

 a, c ; ''^^ P. barbutellus, Kivh., a, d; *P. campestris, Pz., d ; '^P. qnadri 

 color, Lep., a; -''Bombus venustus, Sm., a, b, c, d ; ^B. agrorum. Fab. 

 a, c, d ; *P. hortorum, L., a, c ; *P. sylvarum, L., a ; *i3. derhamellus 

 Kirb., a, d ; *P. lapidarius, L., f ; *P. pratorum, L., a, d, f ; ''B. terres- 

 tris, L., a, c ; B. terrestris var. virginalis, Kirb, a. — Lieut. L. A. Box, 

 Great Glen, Leicester. November IQth, 1918. 



Abraxas grossulariata var. exquisita. — Referring to the supposed 

 new form of Abraxas grossulariata, which the Rev. G. H. Raynor pro- 

 poses to name ab. exquisita. (Ent. Rec, vol. xxx., p. 189), the description 

 he applies to it agrees exactly with a form which we have been breed- 

 ing here for over a dozen years, and which we have always regarded 

 -as an extreme form of the male of ab. varleyata. My oldest specimen, 

 bred from a wild larva, is dated " Huddersfield, bred 1905," and my 

 most recent one, a beautiful second brood example, " Huddersfield, 

 bred November 2nd, 1918." In my big series of varleyata, I have 

 specimens showing every gradation, so far as the large marginal 

 cuneate white blotches are concerned, from this extreme form to the 

 most ordinary form of the male, and beyond it to many males which 

 show no trace of any cuneate mark at all. But we have always re- 

 garded these cuneate marks as sexual, as it is very rarely indeed that 

 they show in the females at all, I have only seven specimens (and 

 have never bred or seen more than one or two more) in my series 

 which do so, and they with not more than two (sometimes only one) 

 in each hindwing, and none in the forewings. But my friend, Mr. 

 Raynor, tells me that all his five specimens are females, which fact 

 certainly is as new as it is extraordinary in this extreme form. The 

 numerous and large cuneate marks undoubtedly give the variety an 



