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was rather disappointed with the results of my endeavours, as the 

 species which I exj)ectcd to meet with, belonging to such genera as 

 Crabro, Diodontus, Fasaalcccus^ Fcmphrcdon, and Odynerus, in which 

 genera the records from Jersey are singularly scanty, were practically 

 absent, at any rate, remarkably few of them [)ut in an aj)pearance. 

 Of the genus Odynerus for instance, of which in liritaiu we have 

 18 species, most of which are fairly common, only 2 are recorded from 

 Jersey, and one of these {pictus) for the first time now. 7 species 

 are recorded from Guernsey and ;j from Alderney. 1 thought that 

 probably 1 was too late for them in July and fully expected that 1 

 should be more successful in June, but pariclum and jnctus were the 

 only two species seen, and very few examples even of them. 



The same may be said more or less of the other genera which 

 one expects to find in June. Of Crabro I only saw elongatulus, and 

 of PassaJcecus and Diodontus 1 did not see a single specimen, and 

 although there were fine bramble bushes in some places, all the 

 Aculeates basking on their leaves turned out to be either Crabro 

 elonyatulm or TrypoxyJon atienuutum. This latter insect was in the 

 utmost profusion at one spot along the coast, visiting also wild carrot 

 and Euphorbia^ many examples often occurring on one head of flowers. 



The commonest ants in the south of the island are Formica rufa 

 and/wscrt, and Lasius niyer -. of the last an interesting form with pale 

 red thorax occurs at St. Ouen's Bay and elsewhere, resembling, if not 

 identical with, the race cmaryinata of the Continent. Andre says 

 this form has a peculiar musky smell when handled, but 1 did not ob- 

 serve this in the specimens I captured ; Lasius flavus curiously enough 

 has not turned up in Jersey, although Luff records it as " common " in 

 Guernsey. The common Pompili are plumbeus, which occurs every- 

 where, chalybeatus and fumijyennis ; gibbus, one of our very common 

 British species, is rare, and viaticus, probably our commonest, has not 

 yet been recorded from the Channel Islands at all. June is too late 

 for the spring species of Andrena, and these still figure badly in the 

 Jersey list ; but I hope some day an Entomologist may be induced to 

 visit the island in April, when no doubt several additional species 

 would reward his efforts. Also there are probably further additions 

 to come from the north and east of the island, of which I know very 

 little, although the experience of them in the one or two excursions I 

 made in 1901 was anything but encouraging. 



The best capture I have made in Jersey is of an apparently new 

 Bpecies of Amtnophila, closely allied to hirsuta, Scop., which I am now 



