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 INSECTS Heterogyna {continued) Camponotus herculanea, Linn. Females and neuters found alive (among timber from New Brumwick) in a sawyard at Norwich, in April, 1877 Tetramorium lippula, Nyl. One male taken near Norwich in 1878 Myrmica ruginodis, Nyl. Norwich ; not very common — scabrinodis, Nyl. Very common — laevinodis, Nyl. Plentiful in the Nor- wich district — lobicornis, Fab. Mousehold ; taken by Mr. Thouless in 1886 ; a rare species Leptothorax acervorum, Fab. Neuters were taken from the trunk of an old tree at Earlham in 1888 Diplorhoptrum domesticum, Shuck. This little pest, the red house-ant, is to be found in some of the houses in Nor- wich FOSSORES Mutilla ephippium. Fab. Norwich ; on dry sunny banks, in August Myrmosa melanocephala. Fab. Norwich district ; end of July Tiphia femorata. Fab. Norwich, Cromer ; on Umbelliferae, end of July and in August — minuta, Lind. Eaton, Mousehold ; a few females, end of June and beginning of July Sapyga 5-punctata, Fab. Brundall ; July Pompilus fuscus, Linn. Common every- where — trivialis, Dahlb. On every dry bank — consobrinus, Dahlb. Norwich — pectinipes, Linn. Mousehold — plumbeus. Fab. Yarmouth, Cromer, Bawsey Heath — niger, Fab. Recorded in Paget's list — rufipes, Linn. Yarmouth, Earlham ; August Priocnemis sepicola. Smith. In hedgerows, commonly in the spring — affinis, Lind. Recorded in Mr. Smith's catalogue, in Norfolk, in August and September — exaltatus, Fab. Everywhere, in July and August — hyalinatus, Fab. Norwich, in garden ; Mousehold, in July, August and Sep- tember — parvulus, Dahlb. Mousehold ; two females, September Agenia hircana. Fab. Earlham, Eaton ; two females and one male on trunks of trees, in June and July, 1878 99 FossoRES {continual) Ceropales maculata, Fab. Norwich ; on Umbelliferae, in August Ammophila sabulosa, Linn. Abundant in May — viatica, Linn. Less abundant, and appearing later — lutaria. Fab. Mousehold ; scarce Miscus campestris, Latr. Mousehold ; early in July Tachytes pompiliformis, Panz. Norwich, Cromer ; June, July, not rare Astata boops, Schr. Mousehold ; July, August, not common Nysson spinosus. Fab. Lakenham, Brun- dall ; May to July, frequent — trimaculatus, Rossi. Norwich, Heigham, Brundall ; July, August — dimidiatus, Jurine. Earlham, Eaton, Brundall; July, August Gorytes mystaceus, Linn. Norwich, Brun- dall ; May and June, common — quadrifasciatus. Fab. Heigham, Brun- dall, Horning ; June, July Hoplisus bicinctus, Rossi. Eaton ; a fine female of this very rare wasp Harpactus tumidus, Panz. Sandhills, Tar- mouth, June ; Earlham, Eaton, in July and August Mellinus arvensis, Linn. Eaton, Earlham, Mousehold, Brundall, Yarmouth^ Bawsey Heath ; very common — sabulosus, Fab. Brundall; July Trypoxylon figulus, Linn. Very common — attenuatum, Smith. Abundant — clavigerum, St. Farg. Scarcer than the last two Crabro clavipes, Linn. Norwich, Harford Bridges, Earlham ; June to Septem- ber — tibiale. Fab. Brundall — signatus, Panz. Eaton ; one male, June, 1874; rare in this county — luteipalpis, St. Farg. Lynn, Norwich, Brundall ; June, July — podagricus, Lind. Brundall; August, 1879 — varius, St. Farg. Earlham, Brundall ; July, September — leucostoma. Norwich ; common — exiguus. Shuck. Earlham ; one speci- men, July, 1874 — walkeri. Shuck. Cromer — wesmaeli, Lind. Cromer ; one speci- men, August, 1877 ■ — obliquus, Shuck. Norwich, Brundall, Cromer ; August — quadrimaculatus. Fab. Abundant, July and August — scutatus. Fab. Norwich ; July, August