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Woking Canal on Lysimachia vulgaris, in August ; it bas been 

 taken also at Norvvicb on tbistles, and I find it bere occasionally on 

 those plants, but tbere is no doubt that it prefers the Lysimachia. 

 On the Continent there is an inquiline bee which associates with it, 

 Epelioides ccecutiens, but this is found on Lythrum salicaria (purple 

 loose-strife) ; as this plant is also common along our canal, I have 

 hopes that the Epelioides may possibly be found here also, although 

 it has not been recorded from so far north as England. 



Dasypoda hirlipes, which is one of our handsomest bees, may be 

 found at this time of the year in sandy places, but it is local. At 

 Littlehampton it used to be abundant ; it is a most interesting insect 

 to watch at its burrows, especially when it returns home with its 

 enormous tibial brushes covered with pollen ; like most of the 

 Andrenidce it is usually found in colonies. Cilissa hcemorrhoidalis is 

 an August insect and frequents the bells of Campanula rotitndifolia, 

 which it creeps into and is quite hidden from view ; it is not a common 

 species ; I have taken it several times by sweeping ; the other species, 

 leporina, is commoner, and visits various flowers. 



The two species of Panurgus are both far from rare ; they visit 

 yellow composites, the males often spending the night in them curled 

 up among the rays. On our sandy commons both occur freely, 

 and the rare Dufourea occasionally, i. e., twice in ten years ! Tellow 

 composites again are the attraction. 



Of Eopliites as a British insect we only know the two examples 

 taken by the Eev. E. N. Bloomfield in \\\s garden at Guestling. It is 

 exceedingly like an Halictus, but has only two submarginal cells in the 

 front wings, it is also browner in tint ; this appearance is due to the 

 brown hairs with which tbe insect is covered. It occurs in Sweden, 

 so there is every hope that it will again turn up here. In July and 

 August several species of Nomada may be found associating with the 

 second broods of Andrena. N.fucata, a rare species, associates with 

 the second brood of fulvicrus (formerly called extricata by Smith), 

 jacohcBcB and solidaginis occur on thistles and ragwort, but their hosts 

 are not known for certain. N. Boherjeotiana appears in July ; it is 

 a rare species and generally occurs singly ; on the heaths here 1 have 

 met with it two or three times on the same ground where Andrena 

 analis is found, so I suspect it may associate with that species. 

 N. dbtusifrons is also a July species ; Mr. Bridgman thinks it associates 

 with A. coitana, so it should be looked for where that species is found. 



(To he continued). 



