SOLITARY BEES AND WASPS OF ESSEX. 81
Scapania curta (Mart.) Dum.
18 C; Epping Forest, E.F.C.; Fairly frequent in the Forest.
No record for 19.
Radula complanata (L.) Dum.
18 C; Epping Forest, E.F.C.; 19, "Kelvedon," E.G.V. ;.
Saffron Walden, 1926.
Madotheca platyphylla (L.) Dum.
18 C ; 19, "Kelvedon, Colchester," E.G.V. ; Great Canford,
Miss E. Armitage, 1923 ; Saffron Walden, 1926.
Frullania Tamarisci (L.) Dum.
18, "On trees near Fairmead bottom," E.F.
No recent record for the county.
Frullania dilatata (L.) Dum.
18 C ; 19, "Kelvedon, 1860," E.G.V. ; Lower Forest, J.
Ross, 1926 ; Saffron Walden, 1926.
Anthoceros punctatus L.
18, "In the common field near Walthamstow Church towards
the southern hedge," E.F. ; "In Mark House Field,"
E.F.
No recent record for the county.
NOTES ON THE SOLITARY BEES AND WASPS
OF ESSEX.
By CHARLES NICHOLSON, F.E.S.
[Read 30th October, 1926 ; with later additions.]
WE are concerned here with the "solitary" species only of the
Aculeate section of the great Order of insects known as
Hymenoptera ; the following table will make clear the modern
grouping of the Order :—