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only bee I found there likely to supply the wants of its future 
young, was Andrena coitana, which abounds in this locality 
(Brundall). The hot weather we had this summer, appeared to be 
too hot in the middle of the day for insects, except a few diptera 
nothing was to be seen. Mr. Smith told me one of his friends 
found insects at nine o’clock in the morning, when nothing was to 
be found in the middle of the day in consequence of the intense 
heat. 
I captured at Brundall in July 1873, a female Odynerus , which 
was thought to be a singular variety of Spinipes ; and as such it 
stood in my collection, till a notice appeared in the Entomologist’s 
Monthly Magazine for last October, containing the description of 
an Odynerus new to Britain, the male of which had been dis- 
covered by Mr. Saunders. I thought the description of the female 
corresponded with my variety. Mr. Smith kindly compared it with 
that species for me, and returned it to me as a very large specimen 
of melanocepliala, which is a very scarce insect, and not reniformis. 
The genus Pompilus appears to be a very variable one in 
habits, as well as in structure. Both sexes of P. fuscus make their 
appearance towards the end of July. After a time the males 
disappear, the females hybernate ; and in early Spring on the first 
fine day towards the end of March or beginning of April, they 
may be found actively at work making burrows, and storing them 
for the sustenance of their young. At this time no males are to 
be seen, their economy in this respect being exactly the same as 
that observed by Mr. Smith, of the genus Halidus. P. gibbus 
appears to have more than one brood in the year, as males may be 
taken in the spring as well as in the aqtumn; whilst pectinipes, 
rufipes, sepicola, exedtufus, and hyalinatus, as far as my experience 
goes, appear to have but one brood ; some species appearing at one 
time some at another. 
As it is seldom now that I can add fresh species of the aeuleala 
to my Norfolk list, I purpose taking some of the other families of 
Ilymenoptera, and shall be very much obliged to any Lepi- 
dopterists of the county who will kindly save for me any Ichneumons 
they may breed; and if they would add the name of the insect 
from which they were bred, the locality and the date, I should bo 
still further obliged. These insects are best killed with burning 
sulphur, but in any way rather than with cyanide or laurel, as 
