40 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S RECORD. 
chief districts that have been worked over. Out of the British total of 
374 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 
laevis, 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 Suffolk 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 (J. 
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 rubicundus is an interesting species, which Mr. Tuck takes 
near Bury St. Edmunds, in company with Andrena labialis. Halictus 
laevigatus, seanotatus 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. Al. prasinus and punctatissimus 
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. angustior and A. proaima. 
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 guttulata 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.  Chelostoma 
(Eriades) campanularum, Kirby, continues to be widely distributed in 
Suffolk. Both sexes of Megachile 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 
O. bicolor, aurulenta and spinulosa in the county since Kirby took 
them. A male of the somewhat uncommon Psithyrus campestris was 
found by Mr. Tuck in a nest of Bombus latreillellus ; this is interesting 
as throwing light on the obscure associations of P. campestris. Among 
the Bombi the var. distinguendus of B. latreillellus is worthy of note; it 
seems to be widely distributed in the county. 
