MK. W. H. TUCK ON ACULEATE-H YMENOPTBRA. 
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In July, near home, I found a large colony of Mimesa equestris 
in a sandy rabbit-hole. This singular insect is not uncommon 
upon Mousehold, and Wortham Ling near the Butts, the only 
other localities I know of for it. I spent several days at Brundall 
searching for the late Mr. Bridgman’s rare Bee, Macropis; but since 
the Acle line was made this spot is much altered, and I fear the 
Bee is, in Norfolk, extinct. It swarms in Wicken Fen ; breeding, 
1 believe, in a grassy path leading from Wicken to Up ware. 
The Hornet was rather numerous in Suffolk, and I obtained 
a fine nest built in a pigeon-locker. This hung upon the wall 
of a cottage facing east, and during two days of easterly wind at 
the end of August, the curious “wind-guard,” or covering, which 
the Hornets made over the entrance hole to keep out the light, 
was blown in and never repaired. The Hornets, however, con- 
tinued to enter by a small hole at the top, and I found the nest 
deserted on October 18th, an early date. It is now in the Ipswich 
Museum. 
Early in August I found a strong colony of the rare Vespa rufa 
in a mole-run just beneath the grass within thirty yards of my 
window. This is a very docile Wasp, and 1 brought the nest 
indoors on August 10th, and watched them for nearly three weeks 
in my glass hive in the hope of getting the rare parasitic Wasp, 
V. Austriaca, which lives with them. But although several of the 
males had one or more of the typical marks of Austriaca, — the 
yellow scape to the antenna;, and the black hairs on the tibia?, 
the double marks did not occur upon the same Wasp; and 
Mr. E. Saunders, who saw many of them, believes that Austriaca 
is only to be found in the North and West of England and in 
Ireland. But if any one will watch a nest of V. rufa from about 
the middle of July (it being an early Wasp) the parasite might 
some day be found. 
Sawflies were very scarce, the only one of note I took was 
a male, Athalia spinarum (“black jack”), from a Tamarisk bush 
at Aldeburgh. I never took the female, which has the thorax 
yellow, and appears in May — the autumn brood appears to be 
chiefly males. 
When at Bungay I took the following Diptera : Oxycera 
trilineata, Boris clavipes, and Dysmachus trigonus ; and at 
Aldeburgh by the Mere, Nemotelus uliginosus, and Platychirus 
