Insects, 1661 



Capture of Catocala Fraxini at Yarmouth. — A specimen of this insect was cap- 

 tured in or about the workhouse, in August last. Another was seen sitting upon the 

 wall next an upper window, hut was not taken. — George Fitt, Jun. 



Capture of Anticlea berberata near Chelmsford. — Observing Mr. Douhleday's note 

 respecting the capture of Anticlea berberata at Epping (Zool. 581), I thought it might 

 be worth stating, that I have taken a single specimen near here this year; it was 

 beaten out of a hedge in June, appears to be a female, and is a little worn. — A. 

 Greenwood; Chelmsford, 9th December, 1846. 



Capture of Glyphipteryx eximia near London. — I have met with this beautiful but 

 very local insect very plentifully in a lane leading from Hackney Marshes to Stratford ; 

 the first time I met with it on July 10th, 1842, and again, the 4th July, 1844, and in 

 1845 on the 30th June, and again, in 1846 on the 5th June, and took upwards of 

 100 specimens in one evening. — W. E. Pattenden; 25, Union Street, Kingsland Road, 

 London, January Wth 1847. 



Capture of Agdistes Bennetti in the Isle of Sheppy. — I took a specimen of this rare 

 plume, but injured by sweeping, on the 1st of August last, in the Isle of Sheppy, and 

 had another very fine one in my net, but could not secure it, it being blown out by the 

 wind, which was very strong all the morning. The afternoon was remarkable in the 

 country around London, for the great hail-storm. — Thomas Ingall ; Bank of England. 



Remarkable aberrant structure in a specimen of Callimome. — A specimen of Calli- 

 mome elegans, forwarded to me by Mr. Clear, from Cork, presents a remarkable pe- 

 culiarity in the structure of the underside of the abdomen. The female of Callimome 

 and many other genera has a ridge along the abdomen beneath, at the end of it the 

 oviduct emerges, and is received into a groove till it reaches the tip of the abdomen, 

 where it passes between its sheaths. But this specimen instead of a ridge has a pro- 

 tuberance like a horn, more than half the length of the abdomen with which it forms 

 a right angle, the oviduct springs from its base. — Francis Walker. 



Rose-galls, or Robin's pincushions. — These galls formed by Rhodites Rosa? are also 

 inhabited by a smaller gall-fly, one of the inquilini, and by an Ichneumon fly. I 

 have also reared from them Eurytoma plumata, Callimome bedeguaris, C. macrop- 

 terus, and C. flavipes. — Francis Walker. 



Capture of Chalcis sispes in the Isle of Sheppy. — I swept a single specimen from off 

 the rush (Scirpus maritimus). Last year I took four in the Isle of Sheppy; but I was 

 either too late this year, which I suppose was the case, or their scarcity arose from the 

 rushes having been cut down for food for donkeys, and were only half grown up again. 

 Of C. clavipes, which last year was in great plenty, I only took two or three. — Thomas 

 Ingall ; Bank of England. 



Enumeration of the British Bees. — I have drawn up the following enumeration of 

 the genera and number of species of British bees, as far as I am at present acquainted 

 with them ; there are doubtless a few others scattered in collections, which I have not 

 had an opportunity of examining, but the result as to number is very remarkable, 

 since seventy-one of Kirby's species, consisting principally of sexes united to their 

 partners, have been sunk, and seventy-one new species discovered. This list will pro- 

 bably be interesting to some of the readers of the ' Zoologist,' and will doubtless be 

 looked upon as a curiosity at some future period, when entomology has reached the 

 advanced stage, towards which it has made such rapid strides of late years ; for it will 

 then show, how very limited was our knowledge of the actual number of indigenous 

 species of bees; for when remote parts of the country are carefully explored, many 

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