52 roebuck: on Yorkshire bees. 



nest was taken. Stated by Mr. Smith to be "not uncommon in 

 Yorkshire" (B.F.H. 185 8, p. 221). 



Tribe ANTHOPHILA—Bees. 



The student of this group is exceptionally favoured in being 

 able to take for his text-book the second edition of Mr. Frederick 

 Smith's 'Catalogue of British Bees in the collection of the 

 British Museum/ 1876 (price 5/-). 



Directions for collection aud preservation will be found in 

 the 'Entomologist's Annual' for 1856, in 'Science Gossip' for Oct. 

 1875 (this paper also reprinted in Hardwicke's 'Notes on 

 Collecting and Preserving Natural History Objects,' 1877), and 

 in the Ent. Mo. Mag. for June and August 1875. 



The number of British genera and species described in the 

 above-mentioned monograph of Mr. Smith's was (1876): 



fam. Andrenid^,.. 8 genera 117 species 

 fam. Apidte 18 „ 94 ,, 



altogether 26 „ 211 ,, 

 The discovery in 1 877 of two new species of Andrenidse in Britain 

 {Halidus patixillus, Schenck, and Rophites qninqiiespinosus, Spin., 

 the latter, taken again in 1878 — a new genus — being the most 

 important addition made to the British list for many years) raised 

 these numbers to 27 genera and 213 species. 



The value of this present paper is immeasurably enhanced 

 by the fact that through the kindness of Mr. William Talbot of 

 Wakefield and by permission of Mr. Frederick Smith, F.Z.S., of 

 the British Museum, I am able to embody herein a very full list 

 of the bees which occur in the immediate neighbourhood of 

 Woolley near Wakefield. This portion of country, which will 

 henceforth be to Yorkshire hymenopterists a classic land as the 

 scene of Mr. Smith's chief Yorkshire researches, and which 

 includes - Vv'oolley Edge, is on sandy soil, very suitable for the 

 nidification of various Hymenoptera. It is moreover remarkable, 

 as Mr. Smith points out, for the somewhat northern type of its 



Trans. Y.N.U., 1877. Series D 



