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Oithona splendensy Baird. Body long and rather slender. Tail 

 tapering. Long antennae about the length of the body of insect, nu- 

 merously articulated, and furnished with numerous very short setae or 

 prickles : the upper short antennae are terminated by a bundle of ra- 

 ther long setae. First segment of body long. Last articulation of tail 

 terminated by several short setae or filaments. 



Inhabits the South Atlantic Ocean. Off the Cape of Good Hope. 

 "June 18, 1832, in lat. 36° S. long. 10° E. Observing in forenoon 

 large flocks of the bird called the snow petrel by sailors, flying about 

 and very low on surface of water, hauled up a bucket-full from along- 

 side, and found a great many Cyclopes in it, one of which was the 

 species here figured." "June 23rd, lat. 38° S. long. 31° E. The sea 

 this evening was very luminous. While drawing up a bucket of wa- 

 ter from alongside, in addition to numerous bright spots in the water, 

 there was one adhering to the rope near the neck of the bucket. At 

 first, the moment it was withdrawn from out of the water, this spot ap- 

 peared about the size of a crown piece or dollar. As the water how- 

 ever left the rope and it became a little drier, the spot became smaller, 

 but still of a beautiful luminousness and of a slight bluish tinge. Up- 

 on bringing it to the light I found, to my no small surprise, that this 

 large and bright mass of fire proceeded from a small species of Cy- 

 clops. I removed it with a pencil from the rope, and placed it in a 

 tumbler-full of water, in which there was also another specimen taken 

 from the same bucket. It was very lively, and when the glass was re- 

 moved to a dark place, these two little creatures again began to be dis- 

 tinctly luminous. Upon examining them by the microscope I found 

 them both to belong to the same species, and that they were exactly 

 the same as that taken and figured on the 18th of June." — Private 

 Journal. W. Baird. 



Notes on Captures of Hymenopterous Insects at Hawley, and de- 

 scription of a new British Bee. By Frederick Smith, Esq., 

 Curator to the Entomological Society. 



To the north of the quiet little village of Hawley, in Hampshire, is 

 a wood, about a mile and a half in length by a quarter of a mile in 

 breadth ; it is composed of fir, with the exception of about one hun- 

 dred yards at the end towards the village, and terminates in an abrupt 

 sloping sand-bank with a southern aspect, forming altogether one 

 of the most desirable localities which any collector of Hymenoptera 



