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Aculeate Ht/menopfera on the coast of Kent. — On July lOtli I took my break- 

 fast and went down to the nesting spot of a colony of Basypoda hirtipes on the 

 Deal sandhills. I arriyed at about 7 a.m., just in time to secure a good many 

 specimens of each sex in magnificent condition, as they emerged from their burrows. 

 At the same time I took several specimens of Mutilla rufipes, male, on a sandy patch 

 close by. I also took another specimen of Astata stigma on the sandhills. At 

 Kingsdown this year I took Saropoda himaculata for the first time. It appeared 

 at Echium vulgare. Andrena Hattorfiana was very scarce on Knautia arvensis ; I 

 have, however, discovered a new locality for this fine insect at Tilmanstone, near 

 Sandwich (about six miles inland from Kingsdown), where it was far from rare this 

 year. Andrena Cetii also occurred pretty freely at Tilmanstone, on Scabious. This 

 locality also produced Cerceris labiata on late mignonette, together with a few 

 specimens of the rare C. quadricincta, all of these, however, being females. At St. 

 Margaret's Bay I took Pompilus (Aporus) unicolor more freely than in any previous 

 year. At first it appeared on wild carrot ; but when the sea samphire came into 

 bloom it went to that plant, in company with swarms of Crabro cribrarius, and one 

 or two stray specimens of Pompilus minutulus, Salius parvulus, and Diodontus 

 minutus. I noticed several females of Pompilus unicolor very busy licking the 

 carpels of the sea samphire. This appeared to be their sole occupation during the 

 ten minutes or so that they were under observation. Andrena slmilUma appeared 

 again at the foot of the cliff, first on marjoram and bramble, afterwards on Eupa- 

 torium. The males of Cilissa melanura were also found again hovering over the 

 flowers of Red Bartsia. As usual, the females were very difficult to find, but I took 

 one or two by working very eai-Iy one morning. Cilissa hmmorrhoidalis were by no 

 means rare in harebells. Nomada jacobmce has turned up this year more freely than 

 usual, and I have reason to think that it may possibly associate with C. leporina. 

 Late mignonette at St. Margaret's Bay produced Cerceris ornata, and one female 

 of C. quadricincta. A female of Crabro interruptus was taken at Ripple, near 

 Walmer. Some males were taken here last year. Prosopis Ma.soni was much less 

 common all along the coast than usual. A female of Clirysis neglecta was taken 

 around the burrows of Odynerus spinipes at St. Margaret's Bay. — F. W. L. Sladen, 

 Ripple Court, near Dover : September 1st, 1900. 



Scottish Aculeate Hymenoptera: additions to the list. — The following Aculeates, 

 all taken by me in Scotland during the last six or seven years, have not, so far as I 

 can make out, been previously recorded from north of the Border. In every case 

 the determination has either been made or confirmed by Mr. Edward Saunders. 



Lasius umbratus, Nyl., near Gullane (E. Lothian), ? . Pompilus spissus, 

 Schiodte, near Kirknewton (Midlothian). Agenia variegata, Linn., Dunbar 

 (E.Lothian). Tachytes pectinipes, Linn., Cromdale (Strathspey), and near Perth, 

 Pemphredun Shuckardi, Moraw., Edinburgh, Inverkeithing (Fife), &c. ; perhaps 

 this is the P. unicolor of McGregor's Perth list. Passalaecus gracilis, Curt., Aber- 

 foyle (S.W. Perth). Qorytes tumidus, Panz., North Queensferry (Fife). Crabro 

 chrysostomus, Lep., Luffness (E. Lothian). Crabro vagus, Linn., near Edinburgh 

 and at Aberfoyle. Sphecodes hyalinatus, Schenck, Aberfoyle, $ . Andrena 

 cingulata. Fab., Dunbar. Nomada flavoguttata, Kby., near Midcalder (Midlothian). 

 Osmia rufa, Linn., Dunbar. 



