150 MK. BOLD ON THE ACULEATE HYMENOPTERA 



I once found a large female in the fangs of a spider, which, 

 I think, it must have been trying to capture, and had itself been 

 caught, as the spider held it " Sus. per Col." from the under 

 side of its web, which was not at all damaged. 



11. C. patellatus, Panz. Dahlb. Hym. Europ., I., 356, 232 



Smith. Monog., 151, 28. 



Rare. Male and female taken near Axwell Park, 



12. C. pahnipes, Linn. Dahlb. Hym. Europ., I., 332, 217 ; 



Smith, Monog., 152, 29. 



Very rare, only one female taken. July. 



13. C. vagus, Linn. Dahlb., Hym. Europ., I., 392, 268; 



Smith, Monog., 155, 31. 



Abundant in the district. It burrows in decaying wood, 

 and provisions its nest with Diptera. July and August. 



14. G. chrysostonms, St. Farg. Smith. Monog., 156, 32 ; C. 



lapidarius, Dahlb., Hym, Euro]^., I., 405, 272. 



Also very common, burrowing in wood, preferring willows, 

 and preying on flies. July and August. 



Gexus 3. OXYBELUS, Latr. 



1. 0. uniglumis, Linn. Dahlb., Hym. Europ., 1, 273, 172; 

 Smith, Monog., 162, 1. 



"The small black and yellow Apis (Linn., Faun. Suec, p. 

 303, n. 1011) is frequent in gardens and about old houses. It 

 is a small, but beautiful insect of the Wasp kind ; the thorax, 

 head, and antennae black ; four of the articulations or segments 

 of the body of the same colour, with annular golden. fasci(B glossy 

 and splendent. Though it is so small, it will assault and kill a 

 common domestic fly three or four times as large as itself, and 

 drag it with ease to its recess." — Wallis, "Nat. Hist, and Antiq. 

 of Northumberland." I., 350-7. 



