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Chrijsisfulgida, Linn. — Three males on a gate-post near Byfleet 

 (June 14th) ; six females on palings at Woking (July 10th). 



Chri/sis succhtcta, Ijinn. — A female on an umbellifer {(Ena7itJie 

 crocata ?) near Ripley on June 29th ; two more females on a low 

 road-side bank at AVisley, in the same district, on July 1st ; and a 

 fourth in a similar spot at Woking on July 6th. 



Sedycltridium roseum, Rossi. — Three females at Chobham (July 

 8th). 



G^abro aphidum, Lep. — A female flying about a hedge at Ripley 

 (June 28th). This is one of our very rarest species, and I believe it 

 is long since any capture of it has been recorded. I have several 

 times re-visited the spot, but no other specimen has occurred. 



Some of the rarer Blimesidce seem to be less rare than usual here 

 this year. Within a radius of ten or twelve miles from Woking 1 

 have taken several specimens each of Mimesa Shickardi, Wesm., 

 equesfris, Fab., and Dalilhomi, Wesm., besides our commoner species, 

 bicolor, Fab., and unicolor, v. de Lind. 



Tachysphex unicolor, Pz.— One ^, Chobham, June 24th ; one $, 

 Oxshott, June 21st. 



Astatus stigma, Pz.— Two females at Chobham (July 7th and 8th). 



Odynerus {ILoplopus) reniformis, Gm. — Several females burrowing 

 in their old locality at Chobham in June. I could find no males, and 

 was disappointed in being unable to ascertain that any species of 

 Chrysid was parasitic upon it. (In spinipes burrows a few miles off, 

 I found Chrysis hidentata, Linn., in immense numbers, besides a few 

 specimens of neglecta. Shuck., and a fair sprinkling of ignita, Linn. 

 All these kinds I watched in the act of entering the wasp's tubes. 

 Chrysis cyanea, Linn., occurred in the same spot, but I think only 

 accidentally ; I did not see it attempt any of the tubes, and several 

 of its frequent victim, Osmia ccerulescens, were burrowing close by). 



Odynerus (^SymmorpJiUH) gracilis, Brulle. — I have taken males in 

 several localities round Woking this June, but no females. 



Andrena amhigua, Perkins. — This recently described species seemed 

 to be quite common at Stoke d'Abernon, near Cobham, on May 17th. 

 I took many males and two females. The former were only dis- 

 tinguishable by their antenna) from the males of A. varians, the latter 

 only by the puncturation of the clypeus from the females of A. 

 helvola. 



Andrena proxivia, Kirby. — Two females at Swanage (June 4th 



