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collector, is mentioned by Curtis and Stephens in connection with 
Norfolk Ilymenoptera. 
I have availed myself of these notices as far as I was able : many 
of Paget’s captures were made in Suffolk, I have therefore only 
taken those which have the exact locality attached. 
More recently Mr. P. Smith visited Mousehold and Cromer : the 
results of those visits are recorded in the ‘ Entomologist’s Annual ’ 
for 1868 — 9, from these I have also made several quotations as 
well as from his ‘Catalogue of British Fossores.’ 
The above are all the notices I have met with of our early 
workers. I believe none of the celebrated Entomologists I have 
just mentioned have left lists of Norfolk Ilymenoptera or any 
part of the Order, although an excellent example was set them by 
Mr. Burrell, who wrote a very good list of Norfolk Coleoptera, 
published in the old Entomological Society’s ‘ Transactions ; ’ the 
date of the volume is 1812, and Mr. E. A. Fitch thinks it probably 
appeared at intervals, perhaps of two or three years, before that 
date. I am much indebted to Mr. Fitch for the trouble he 
has taken to find where this list appeared. 
In Curtis’s ‘Entomology’ two bees are recorded which, although 
I cannot fairly include them in my list, should, I think, be noticed: 
the first, Andrena Jcirbii; this insect is figured and described, to 
which description is appended the following note: “The rare insect 
figured was in the collection of the late Mr. W. Criffin, of Norwich, 
and was probably taken in the neighbourhood of that city ; it now 
enriches the cabinet of Mr. Stephens.” It is now in the collection 
at the British Museum, and was included in the first edition of the 
‘ Catalogue of British Bees,’ by Mr. Smith, but was deleted in the 
second edition, published in 1877, in the introduction to which the 
following remark appears : “ Ten species arc entirely new additions 
to this part of the British Fauna, whilst two, formerly believed to 
be British, have been omitted, Sphccodes fuscipennis and Andrena 
kirbii . ” 
The other species is Heriudes tnmeorum, a very rare insect, of 
which Curtis says: “Taken at Brentford ; 1 believe that my female 
came from Norfolk.” Concerning both insects some doubt exists, 
and it is very doubtful whether the first named is a British species. 
The list of ants is not so complete as I could wish. I have 
hitherto been unable to meet with even a single specimen of any of 
