20 The Irish Naturalist. February. 



A. apicata Sm. — I was lucky in 1923 to get a splendid day in Glenasmole 

 when the willow catkins were out — 2nd April, 1923 — and was 

 rewarded with two species new to Ireland. I took females on a 

 willow tree by the river not far from the entrance to the waterworks 

 at the foot of Glenasmole and a single example near the head of the 

 upper reservoir. The males I captured were sunning themselves 

 on paling posts, a habit which Dr. Perkins has noticed in the S. of 

 England also. 



A. praecox Scop. — Like the last species, new to Ireland. On 2nd April, 

 1923, I captured a male and a very fresh female close to the spot 

 where I found A. apicata in Glenasmole. 



A. f uscipes K. — Apparently common in Glencree in August and September 

 on Calluna. Previously only recorded for S, Kerry. 



A. simillima Sm. — Recorded by Edward Saunders^ from " Ireland 

 (Haliday)," but I doubt and cannot trace the origin of the record. 



A. denticulata K. — I have taken two males of this species ; one in the 

 quarries on Scrabo, Co. Down, on 7th August, 1922 ; the other at 

 Kilmalin on 29th Jul}/, 1923. Both on bramble flowers. 



A. coitana K. — Two females in Scrabo quarries, Co. Down, on 7th August, 

 1922 ; a male in the Copse Wood at Glencree on 29th July, 1923 ; 

 and a female in the quarry on the west side of Glenasmole at 900 ft. 

 alt. on 4th August, 1923. All the females were on bramble flowers, 

 the male on that of Jasione montana. 



A. tarsata Nyl. {=analis Pz.). — Of this beautiful little bee I dug three 

 females out of freshl)^ made burrows in Glencree (old river bank near 

 the Copse Wood) on a dull damp day (6th August, 1923). 



The small black bees belonging to the group of Andrena tninutula seem 

 never to have been understood in our islands until Dr. R. C. L. 

 Perkins worked them out a few years ago. Freke records " A. 



minutula" and " ^. nana" as Irish. I have taken three species 

 of the group as follows : — 



A. saundersella Perkins. — This is probably the A. nana of Freke's list. 

 Frequent in Cos. Dublin and Wicklow. I have also taken it in 

 Cos. Kildare and Meath. 



A. subopaca Nyl. — The A. minutula of Freke's list. Common in Cos. 

 Dublin and Wicklow. I took a female of a second brood on Ragweed 

 in the Deer Park at Powerscourt on 20th September, 1922. 



A. minutula K. — Probabh^ the genuine A. minutula has not before been 

 recorded from Ireland. Amongst Mr. Halbert's captures I found a 

 male of the first brood (= A. parvula K.) taken in the Rocky Valley, 

 and' a female of the second brood taken in the Vale of Clara. 

 Personally I have taken the second brood only — two females, one in 

 the Deer Park, Powerscourt, on 20th September, 1922, the other in 

 Glencree on 9th September, 1923. The above four localities are 

 in Co. Wicklow and all practically in one district. 



* " British Aculeates," p. 249. 



