HYMENOPTERA. 
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HYMENOPTERA. 
By Frederick Smith. 
Notes on the New Species of British Aculeate 
Hymenoptera. 
Since the publication of Mr. Kirby’s Monographia Apum 
Angli®, fifty-eight new species of Bees have been discovered 
ln this country; several of these have long been known in 
different parts of Europe, and the descriptions of others lie 
scattered in various publications. It has been thought de¬ 
sirable to bring together a list of the Bees unknown at the 
time of publication of Kirby’s Work, pointing out the place 
°f their description, the localities known for the species, and 
adding, at the same time, such observations as appear to be 
necessary. 
In 1836, Shuckard did for the British Fossorial Hymen- 
°ptera what Kirby had previously done for the British Bees, 
an d, in his Essay on the Indigenous Fossorial Hymenoptera, 
described all the British species then known; this Essay 
en J°ys a world-wide fame, and since its publication little has 
l?en added to our knowledge of the Fossorial division of the 
Ac rteata; yeti have here mentioned the few new species 
w hich have occurred, with the view of bringing as it were 
lnt0 one focus, the full amount of united labour on the 
Aculeate group. 
The Formicidce have hitherto been much neglected in this 
^untry, and we are only beginning to acquire a knowledge 
°f °ur riches in number of species. The Stephensian Cata- 
