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No doubt " Box 28 " refers to the Tardy collection, and the green- 

 heads to the pins, now attached to the specimens from Trinity College, 

 were probably added subsequently. Haliday seems, however, to 

 have been satisfied with the evidence, since he definitely records the 

 species as Irish in his MS. list on Tardy's authority. Nevertheless 

 if really occurring in Ireland it is strange that neither this nor Meleda 

 armata — both large and conspicuous insects — have been captured 

 since Tardy's time. 



MEGACHILEIDAE. 



Megachile maritima K. — Recorded by Cuthbert from Lambay and Killiney, 

 Co. DuUin ; but the only specimen so named by him and presented 

 to the National Museum (from Courtown, Co. Wexford) is a female 

 M. willughhiella. Possibly therefore his two records also refer to 

 the latter species which I have taken about Dublin, though not recorded 

 in Freke's list. 

 M. willughbiella K. — Quite common during the month of July in my 

 own garden and in that of Dr. R. Lloyd Praeger, in Rathgar, Co. 

 Dublin, In the latter garden this leaf-cutter bee lines its burrows 

 with pieces cut from the leaves of Epiniedium. Dr. Perkins has pointed 

 out that the colour of the hairs on some of my specimens is different 

 from that of the English form of the species. 

 M. centuncularis L. — Freke says that this is " common and generally 

 distributed " ; nevertheless all the Irish specimens so named that 

 I have been able to trace belong to M. versicolor. But I have proof 

 that M, centuncularis does occur in Ireland, as I captured both a 

 male and a female in Dr. Praeger's garden with the last species on 

 26th June, 1921. 

 M. versicolor Sm. — This is probably the common Irish species referred 

 to by Freke under M. centuncularis. Personally I have only taken 

 it in my own garden and in that at Kenure Park, Rush, where I 

 obtained it in the last week of June, 1923, A few years ago Mr. 

 Nevin H. Foster, M.R.I. A., sent to the National Museum two 

 " burrows " of this species lined with rose leaves, which had been 

 discovered by a carpenter in dismantling the roof of an old house. 

 From these burrows there subsequently hatched a female of the 

 present species and two males of its parasite, Coelioxys inermis 

 {= acuminata). 

 Osmia aurulenta Pz. — Sandhills at Rush and Portrane, June, 1923. 



BOMBIDAE. 



Bombus sylvarum L. — Since Mr. R. A. Phillips sent me the specimen 

 from Rosslare'^ I have myself captured a female in Mr. Jameson's 

 field below Knockranny, Co. Wicklow, on Vicia sepium flowers, on 

 30th May, 1922, and Mr. Phillips has sent me two workers taken 



