nqn [October, 



flowers; CoUefes picistiff ma, Thorns., on cbaraomile flowers; Halictus 

 xanthopus, Kirby, this year the males did not appear until about 

 September 13th ; Osmia aurulenta, Panz., nests in snail shells. 



Ripple Court, Ringwould, Dover : 

 Sept. \Uh, 1897. 



NOTES ON SOME BRITISH HYMENOPTERA (No. 2). 

 BY THE KEV. F. D. MOEICE, M.A., F.E.S. 



In continuation o£ my paper headed as above in the August 

 number of this Magazine, 1 have a few further observations to offer. 



Sedychridmm integrum, Dhb. (Eut. Mo. Mag., June, 1896, p. 

 121). — I have taken two more specimens of this Chrysid at Chobham 

 (July 13th and 15th of this year), and have now seen in all six 

 British examples of it, of which five hail from Chobham, and one 

 (Coll. F. Stnith) is without note of locality, 



Fompilus (Aporus) unicolor, Spin. — I found two males of this 

 great rarity at Woking on July 10th, and a third in the same spot on 

 the following day. All three were skipping over the leaves of a little 

 oak plant by the road side near the Maybury canal bridge. Hoping 

 to secure a female, I watched the spot for several days afterwards, 

 but without success. However, the time was not quite wasted, as I 

 took at intervals on the same plant several other good Pojnpilidcs 

 (especially both sexes of Salius affinis, V. d. I/ind., and a $ of Fom- 

 pilus minutulus, Dhb.), and also quite a series of the males of 

 Myrmosa vielanocephala, F. The latter I had seen before only on 

 flowers, and never in any quantity ; but on this occasion they almost 

 swarmed on the oak leaves, and wholly neglected the numerous flowers 

 {FotentiUa, Achillea, &c.) which grew all round. I saw no females 

 near, but the ground was thickly covered with vegetation, among 

 which any number of them might have been lurking unobserved, and 

 possibly this may have been the reason why the ? Aporus also 

 escaped me. 



Crahro (Lindenius) Panzeri, V. de Lind. — Two females of this 

 species (new to Woking) occurred on the same occasion, not actually 

 on the oak plant referred to above, but on flowers very near it. 



Spilomena troglodytes, V. do Lind. — One (J (unusually large) in 

 a gate post near Byfleet (July Ist). 



Astatus hoops, Schr. — Several times in July (once as late as 

 4 p.m.) I found females of this species carrying prey to their burrows 

 in a sandy spot on Chobham Common. This prey consisted of SeJiirus 



