Handbook to the natural history of Cambridgeshire / edited by J.E. Marr and A.E. Shipley.

Date:
1904
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    with Allantus (? Macrophyia) rufipes, Linn, at the latter locality; I have found M. \2-punctata, Linn, at Wicken and M. rihis at Burwell; Poecilostoma suhmutica, Cam. in Wicken Fen and Nematus fletcheri, Bridg. at Burwell. Cimhex femo- ratus^ Cam., var. Griffi.ni, is said to have occurred at Swaffham Bulbeck and Ely in August; Ahia sericea, Cam. on willows in the Fens; and Pamphilus sylvaticus, Linn, at Wood Litton. Sirex noctilio, Fab. {juvencus, Fab.) is probably the species bought by Jenyns from a man who found it commonly among spruce firs at Fulbourn in June and July, 1837, though it is called S. duplex, Shuck. (= caeruleus, Fab.), an American species, never found in Britain—though it may possibly have been imported. Its relative, the xylophagous Xiphydria pro- longata, Geof. (dromedarius, Fab.) has been found upon willows between Ely and Littleport. Several interesting fossors, wasps and bees have been noticed, of which not the least rare is Alyrmecina Latreillei, Curt., which Jenyns found at Swaffham Bulbeck in Sept. 1843, and Mutilla rufipes, Latr. in sand-pits at Wilbraham Temple. Saunders says the introduced ant, Plagiolepis flavidula, Bog., has occurred in Cambridge; and Thornhill has sent me Crahro vagahundus, Panz. from Boxworth. Gorytes campestris, Linn, was captured at the end of June in Bottisham Fen, and Cerceris quinquefasciata, Bossi, near Stetchworth, with Crahro vagus, Linn, at Ely, and C. mterruptus, Leg. at Cambridge. The rare wasp, Odynerus Antilope, Panz., Andrena apicata, Sm., have occurred to Perkins in Chippenham Fen, and the same observer described a new bee, Prosopis palustris, from Wicken \ where I have captured Sphecodes ruhicundus, Hag.; and the very local bee, Macropis lahiata, Fab., is found there also at flowers of Lysimachia vulgaris and nesting in the ground. I have confirmed Jenyns’ record of Nomada ochro- stoma, Kirb. by taking it at the Levil’s Litch; he says Osmia fulviventris, Panz. occurs at Ely, with Chelostoma florisomne, Linn. At Chippenham, Perkins has found Btelis phaeoptera, ^ Entomologists' Monthly Magazine, 1900, p. 49.