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VIII. 
FAUNA AND FLORA OF NORFOLK. 
Part IX. Hymenoptera. 
Chrysididjs and Aculeata. 
I>y J. B. Bridgman, V.P. 
Read 25 th March , 1879. 
This List can hardly bo called a County List, it being scarcely 
move than a record of those insects found in the neighbourhood, of 
Norwich : the little spare time at my disposal preventing me 
from going far from home. 1 know of no collector of Hymenoptera 
in the county from whom I could obtain help, I am however 
indebted to friends for a few species which I have not been 
fortunate enough to capture myself. 
My best thanks are due to the Rev. J. L. Brown, Messrs. C. G. 
Barrett, II. D. Geldart, T. G. Bayfield, and E. At more, but I am 
especially indebted to my very kind friend the late Mr. Frederick 
Smith of the British Museum, who examined a large number of 
my insects, and thus enabled me to supply a list as accurately named 
as possible, which is no mean advantage. I am also indebted to 
Tilr. Edward Saunders who has been studying the Aculeates, and 
has brought several species to light which had formerly been 
mixed with other species, some of which appear in this list. 
Several leading Entomologists during the present century have 
collected Hymenopterous insects in Norfolk. The Rev. Kirby, 
the author of ‘ Monographia Apum Anglia?,’ published at Ipswich 
in 1802 , mentions only four bees, which he had taken in Norwich 
or its vicinity ; these arc Andrena labialis, A. collinsonana, 
A. albicrus, and A. couvexinsciilci. Curtis also collected here, and 
in his * British Entomology ’ several notices occur of insects 
taken in Norfolk. Stephens unfortunately did not finish his 
‘ Illustrations,’ and I am therefore unable to refer to him ; in that 
part of the Hymenoptera which he did publish, mention is often 
made of Norfolk. Paget also notes many species as occurring 
at Yarmouth and ten miles round. Mr. Griffin, a Norwich 
