1897.] 35 



always worth while to secure stylopized individuals, as there are many 

 questions as to the effects of stylopization which have not yet been 

 definitely answered. In cases where the bee is only attacked by one 

 Sfylops it probably flies about as freely as any unaffected specimen, 

 and the presence of the parasite will only be detected by the yellow 

 seed-like portion which projects between the abdominal segments. 

 In early spring, besides Salix, Veronica cliavKedrys is attractive in 

 sheltered lanes to Andrena minutula as well as to small Halicti. 

 Dandelions also, should always be looked at, as some Andrenas and many 

 species of Halicfus are specially attracted by them. Amongst the 

 earlier bees to put in an appearance is Anthophora pihpes, the tawny 

 males and jet black females of which may be seen darting about from 

 flower to flower on sunshiny mornings, looking like diminutive 

 Humble Bees, from which the white spotted face of the male and the 

 yellow^ tibial scopse of the female will at a glauce distinguish them. 

 After the first rush of spring bees, which lasts to about the end of 

 April in this part of England, there is generally more or less of a 

 pause in the appearance of the Aculeates. The early Andrenas are 

 still about, but are so shabby and weather-beaten as to be hardly 

 worth capturing. 



(To be continued). 



DESCRIPTION OP AN ANOMALOUS HEMIPTEROUS INSECT. 

 BY DR. D. SUARP, M.A., F.R.S. 



Colonel Bingham has kindly given me a Hemipterous insect of a. 

 highly anomalous nature, which I believe to belong to Carcmochelis,. 

 Fieb., a genus which was characterized in 1861, but as no species was 

 assigned to it, has remained a mere name. 



Caecinochelis Binghami, n. sp. 



Pallide argillaceus, spinosus, antennis etiam fortiter spinosis ; scutello 

 perelongato angusto, medio carinato, lateribus spinosis. Long., 6^ mm. 



Hah. : Burma (Colonel Bingham). 



The specimen is evidently immature, so that the colour and the relative lengths 

 and widths of tlie more flexible parts cannot be accurately stated. The head is 

 elongate, cylindrical but strongly spinose, the eyes placed far from the thorax, near 

 the front part of the head. The proboscis is short and stout, forming a loop with 

 the head, it is only of two joints, though it appears to be three-jointed owing to the 



