ly , The Irish Naturalist. February, 



S. hyalinatus Schk. — I have taken this three times ; at i,ooo feet by 

 the Slade Brook above Glenasmole on 2nd June, 1921 ; at the foot 

 of Glenasmole on nth August, 1923, both females; and two males 

 in Glencree on 9th September, 1923. 



S. geoffrella K. {=variegatus v. Hag.). — Recorded by Freke from 



Sandyford and Glencullen, but his specimen — a female — from 



Sandyford, in National Museum, is only 5. affinis. Other records 

 have proved to be likewise erroneous (see Irish Nat., p. 51, 192 1). 

 Possibly the species does not occur in Ireland. 



S. affinis v. Hag. — Abundant in Cos. Dublin and Wicklow, and certainly 

 parasitic on Halictus nitidiusculus at Rush. 



S. dimidiatus v. Hag. — Recorded by Freke from Sandyford, but a male 

 and female of Cuthbert's from that locality are merely 5. affinis, a 

 species I found there also in 1923. 



Halictus lativentris Schk. {=iv-iiotatus of E. Saunders, Brit. Aculeates, 

 in part). — Amongst Mr. Halbert's captures I found a single female 

 from each of the three following localities : — Thomastown, Co. 

 Kilkenny ; Tramore, Co. Waterford ; and " Cork." In 1923 I took 

 three females at The Dingle, Co. Dublin, on 27th May, 1923, and a 

 male on 2nd September, 1923. This species has not yet been 

 recorded as Irish, but the specimens recorded under H. \w.-notatus 

 K. by Mr. Morley from West Mayo, in his Clare Island Report, are 

 possibly referable to it. 



H. freygessneri Alfk. {=subfasciatus of E. Saunders, Brit. Aculeates, in 

 part). — Brought forward as new to Ireland by Mr. Morley in his 

 Clare Island Report, but so far as I can trace all the specimens 

 recorded from Ireland in the past under the name " suhfasciatus " 

 belong to the present species. It is very abundant in Cos. Dublin 

 and Wicklow. Its close ally H. fulvicornis K. has not yet been 

 taken in Ireland. 



H. punctatissimus Schrk. — I have taken this in Cos. Wexford, Wicklow 

 and Dublin, but it seems rather local. 



H. leucopus K. — Frequent in Cos. Dublin and Wicldow. 



H. smeathmanellus K. — Local in Cos. Dublin and Wicklow. Practically 

 all my specimens (of the female) have a black abdomen (with scarcely 

 a trace of the typical metallic sheen), and if run down by the table 

 given by Saunders they would come out as H. morio F. 



H. morio F. — This species is reported by Freke as " common," but so 

 far I have taken no specimens of H. morio, and the only possibly 

 Irish specimen I have seen is a male from the Haliday collection 

 without data. I therefore much doubt Freke 's record. Both 

 Freke and Cuthbert seem to have mixed up the females of H. leucopus 

 and H. morio. 



Andrena carbonaria L. [=pilipes Fab.). — There are in the National Museum 

 supposed Irish specimens of this large black species from both the 

 Haliday and Trinity College collections. Moreover the species occurs 



