MR. W. H. TUCK’S ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 
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ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES FOR 1903. 
By W. H. Tuck, M.A. 
Read 2Jf.th November, 1902. 
Since sending my Last notes, I have left Tostock and moved to 
Bury St. Edmunds, and, although only six miles away, I soon found 
several new things in every order. Starting with Aculeate Hymen- 
optera, I took in the garden, upon the outskirts of the town, a new 
Bee to my list Halictus smeatlunannellus, two queens and two 
males in July. This Bee breeds in old walls and is apparently 
a town species. I also took about the same time both sexes of 
a rare little Bee, Prosopis pictipes. I had only taken it once before, 
in 1892, at Tostock —both these were upon that useful plant 
Poronicum partial 'ianrhes —one of the bestof our English ComjKirifte. 
In Fossores, the following new things have occurred on Wild 
Carrot, Gorytes tumidus, August 19th ; several : — Spilomena trog- 
lodytes — same date; Nysson dimidiatus, July 5th. The tine large 
Ichneumon, Rhyssa persuasoria, occurred twice this season, once in 
the town of Bury, and again in Ruslibrooke Park ; it is parasitic 
upon the big Saw Fly, Sirex gigas ; these were unusually abundant 
this year. The only Dipteron I had worth recording was the 
handsome Merodon equestris : the larva of this Hy is said to feed 
on the Wild Carrot root. 
Bury is a tine centre for the Water Coleoptera ; the rivers Lark 
and Linnet with their tributaries flow through the town, while 
within easy distance are the Canal, Blackwater and Tliet. Early 
in June, from a small mere opening out of these rivers, I took 
a fine series of a Haliplus, which Mr. E. A. Newbury thinks 
will prove a new species ; it appears to be intermediate between 
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