Insects, 4485 



Remarks on Mr. Frederick Smith's ' Catalogue of British Hyme- 

 noptera AculeataJ' By J. C. Dale, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., &c. 



Having received several of the Catalogues of Insects of the British 

 Museum, I intend sending you some remarks on them from time to 

 time, and I will commence now with the ' Hymenoptera Aculeata,' 

 by Mr. Smith, to whom I once sent three species, which he did not 

 know in the Formicidae ! One he has described as Myrmica simillima 

 which he commences with, and I have a species named by Mr. 

 Curtis as Formica emarginata, 01. (not mentioned by Mr. Smith), 

 which is common in Portland, on sands, comes pretty near F. flava, 

 Lat., but appears to be distinct. I took two specimens of a Myrmica 

 near Charmouth, July 8th, 1835, one of which I gave to Mr. Curtis, 

 who named it maculipes;* it is the largest species in the genus that I 

 have, and appears to have been winged, as something like the rudi- 

 ments are left. 



Myrmica ca^spitum. I took one specimen on the Holyhead 

 Mountain, and another in North Wales. 



„ domestica. I had from Mr. Smith, and also from Exeter 



by Mr. Abraham. 



Myrraecina Latreillii. I took one in Cranborne Chace, and a 

 second at Charmouth. 



Mutilla Ephippium. July 14th, 1835, I took a large male on 

 Parley Heath, and a female in the Isle of Wight. 



Myrmosa melanocephala and Tengyria ichneumonides, July 15th, 

 at Lulworth and Charmouth. 



Tiphia minuta. March, 1818, on laurels at Glanville's Wootton. 



Sapyga 5-guttata. Blandford and Ambleside. 



Ceropales maculata. One at Glanville's Wootton. In plenty at 

 Parley. 



Aporus bicolor. Male and female. On a sand-bank, Parley 

 Heath. 



„ unicolor. I took two specimens ; one at Middlemarsh, 



June, 18th, 1835, one of which I gave to Mr. Thwaites. Mr. Smith 

 does not record this as a species. 



Sphex spinifex ? Near Peterborough, according to Barbut. 



Astata boops. Near Wareham and Stourton Caumclh 



Oxybelus nigro-aeneus ? Bourne Mouth, Hants. 



le. 



* Vide Linn. Trans, vol. xxi. p. 216. 

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