NOTES OF SOME BUHS AND WASPS FROM BURMA. : . 188 
PreROPHORIDA. 
222 i 
Aciptilia congruales, H 
Aciptilia congrualis, Walker, XxX., p- 943 (1864). ] 
February and May, 1&80. 
223 
Aciptilia ischnodactyla. 
Aciptilia ischnodactylus, Treit., Lep. Hur., x. 0, 202. 
October, 1885. | 
NOTES ON SOME BEES AND WASPS FROM BURMA. 
By Capram C. T. Brnasam, Deputy Conservator of Forests, Rangoon. 
Butow I give a list of a few bees and wasps that I have collected 
in Burma, with notes as to their habits, time of appearance, &c. 
I have been collecting Hymenoptera in various parts of Lower 
Burma for the last four years, but have only been able to identify 
a very few of the species procured. 
] Literature on the subject is not only scarce, but consists to a 
large extent of papers scattered through various scientific journals, 
proceedings of societies, &c.—papers it is next to impossible for 
a collecting naturalist in India to get together and carry about 
with him. 
The nomenclature I have adopted in this list is that of the 
British Museum catalogue of hymenopterous insects. 
The more striking orders of the Lepidoptera and Coleoptera 
can even in India count their students by scores. Hymenoptera have 
been wofully neglected. My object in writing this paper is to | 
of collectors to this fascinating group of | 
draw the attention 
insects :— 
Halictus eanthognathus, Smith. 
A pretty little bee, swarming about flowering trees from May to 
August. J have procured it at Henzada, Bassein and Rangoon. 
Originally described from Northern India. 
Megachile dimidiata, Smith. 
Common through the hot weathe 
most of the other leaf-cutter bees, into the verandahs and rooms of 
r and rains, and coming like 
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