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MR. \V. H. TUCK OX ACU UEATE-HYMENOPTERA. 
when the last of the indigenous race is believed to have been 
killed. 
It will be noticed that Lord Oxford repeats the popular fiction 
with regard to the supposed hunting of Bustards with Greyhounds. 
What gave rise to this curious fable, so frequently repeated, it is 
difficult to imagine, unless it were some accidental capture of the 
kind under altogether exceptional circumstances ; but his lordship 
only repeats an oft-told tale, and adds nothing from his personal 
experience of this bird, which, in a state of nature, according to 
his own statement, was confined to the instance here related ; but 
his concluding remark, although uttered a hundred years before 
its fulfilment, was prophetic of the fate of these magnificent birds : 
“ they were esteemed a rarity and must be had.” 
VI. 
ACULEATE-HYMEXOPTERA AT TOSTOCK, NEAR 
BURY ST. EDMUNDS. 
By W. H. Tuck. 
Read 26th November, 1901. 
The brilliant weather which the first summer of the new century 
gave us afforded ample scope for field work, but as an entomological 
season it was not an extraordinary one for rare captures, with one 
exception, which I will refer to later. 
Although I have no new captures to record among the Aculeate- 
Hyinenoptera, I found several interesting insects. 
On Bungay Common — a good centre — the rare bee Anthophora 
retusa was abundant in early June; but I failed to obtain its 
parasite, Melecta luctuosa. This Bee is, apparently, getting 
extinct; the common M. armata being found with both species 
of Anthophora. 
