ROEBUCK : ON YORKSHIRE BEES. 53 



Hymenopterous fauna, several species occurring here which are 

 otherwise of Scottish distribution. Mr, Smith, who is by far the 

 best of English hymenopterists, has frequently and in various 

 years collected in this county, more especially round about 

 Wakefield. In i8 — ■, he marked in Mr. Talbot's copy of his 

 "British Bees" (ist ed., pub. 1855) all the species which are 

 found within a few miles of Woolley. By the kindness of both 

 gentlemen I am able to incorporate herein the names so marked. 

 Of the 95 species mentioned below as having been found in 

 Yorkshire 85 belong to the neighbourhood of AVakefield. 



The nomenclature given is according to the 2nd edition of 

 Smith's Catalogue, wherein he has changed several well-known 

 names for obscure ones — the result of further and more detailed 

 comparison of type-specimens, 



ANDRENIDi-E. 



Colletes marginata, (L.) " Yorkshire " (Smith, B.B. 

 1855, p. 6 : and 2nd edition, 1876, p. 5). 



Colletes Daviesana, Smith. Near Wakefield in July 

 1852 (F. Smith, Zool. 1852, x. 3626). Woolley (Smith MS.) 

 "Yorkshire" (Smith, Entom. July 1867, iii. 298). 



Prosopis dilatata, (Kby.) Woolley (Smith MS.) 



P. communis, (Nyl.)^P. annnlatus, (Kby.) Wakefield 

 District in July 1852 (F. Smith, Zool. x. 3626). "Yorkshire" 

 (F. Smith, Entom. Aug. 1867, iii. 307). 



P. signata, (Pz.) WooUey (Smith MS.) 



P. varipes, Sm. "Yorkshire" (Smith, Ent.Ann, 1855, 

 2nd edition, p, 89). 



Sphecodes gibbus, (L.) Near Wakefield in July 1852 

 (F. Smith, Zool. x. 3626), Woolley (Smith MS.) 



S. rufiventris, Wesm. Woolley (F. Smith, MS.) 



S. subquadratus, Sm. Near Wakefield in July 1852 

 (F. Smith, Zool x. 3626). "Yorkshire" (Smith, B.B., both 

 editions, pp. 19 and 20). 



