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5. F. sylvestris., Scop. The Campanular Wasp. Smith, Mo- 



nog., 219, 5 ; F. holsatica, Fab., Ent. Syst., II., 257. 14. 



Somewhat rare, but occurring in widely separated localities. 

 Its nest I have not seen. 



6. F. Norvegica, Fab. The tree Wasp. Smith, Monog., 220, 



6; F. Britannica, Leach, Zool. MiseelL, I., III., t. 50. 



The commonest of the tree Wasps with us. Mr. Selby records 

 its occurrence at Twizell. About Newcastle it is moderately 

 common, becoming more abundant as we proceed westward. I 

 have seen it in immense profusion near Naworth and Lanercost. 

 It builds its beautiful pendent nest on trees, in hedges, and has 

 a great liking for gooseberry bushes in gardens. It is very 

 "waspish" when its domicile is touched. I one day kicked 

 over what I thought was a heap of dirty rags, but which was 

 in reality an immense Wasp nest — evidently squashed by a fall 

 from an overhanging branch — out of which issued a perfect cloud 

 of the infuriated inmates, who chased me at racing speed over 

 two fields, nor would I then have escaped but for a stiff breeze 

 which greatly retarded their flight, and fortunately enabled me 

 to elude their vengeance. 



7. F. crabro, Linn. The Hornet. Linn., Faun. Suec, 1670; 



Zett., Ins. Lapp., 35, 1 ; Smith, Monog., 221, 7. 



Wallis, in his "Natural History and Antiquities of Northum- 

 berland," Vol. I., 349, 5, records the finding of a nest near Chip- 

 chase, North Tyne, which I have no doubt was that of the Hornet. 

 His account is so circumstantial and full of interest that I intro- 

 duce the species, and give his account in full : — " The Hornet 

 is rarely seen with us, except in a very hot summer. It is a 

 formidable but beautiful apis ; the colours a bright yellow, red, 

 and greeUj and black ; the thorax black, and some of the rings or 

 circles elegantly pectinated. A large commonwealth of them 

 was discovered in the hollow of an oak tree, by the very brink 

 of North Tyne, in Bromehaugh, near Chipchase, in the year 

 1762, a remarkably hot summer ; and on the 30th of August a 



