1 oa [November, 



Kirb., not rare at Oxford, with A. humilis, Imh. Stelis p7iceoptera,KiTb.,l ? at 

 Sidmoutli ; I cut it out of a burrow that was constructed in a gate post ; this was 

 on the first day of my stay while it was raining fast. 



Osmia pilicornis, Sm., 1 $ and 4 ? . It burrows in dead wood and in stony 

 ground ; it is a very early spring bee, found in April on dog violet, &c., but the $ 

 may be found till quite the end of June. I took one of the latter sex at Oxford on 

 the common bugle by the road side : fulviventris, Panz., not uncommon in our 

 garden ; it cuts decayed rose leaves in a very ragged fashion, very unlike the neat 

 work of a MegacJnle ; it builds in the holes where nails have fallen out from the 

 mortar of our garden wall : bicolor, Schk., 6 or 7 of each sex on dog violet, bluebell, 

 cistus, and wood anemone : O. leucomelana, Kirb., 2 <J and 5 ? at Sidmouth ; the 

 c? settles on the bare pathways, the $ I only found on Crepis ; I found one nidus 

 in a buried bramble stem ; unfortunately, not more than one or two cells are full, 

 and perhaps not even these : spinulosa, Kirb., not very plentiful at Sidmouth. 



Anthophora f areata, Panz., 4 $ at Sidmouth. 



Saropoda bimactilata, Panz., not uncommon at Sidmouth, always on Centaurea 

 nigra. 



All the species of Psithyriis occurred, the males at any rate. 



The best Bomhus was distinguendus, Mor., of which 2 $ ,\ ^ , and 1 $ were 

 found. 



I found stylopised specimens of A. fulva, Schr., 3 . A. nana, Kirb., $ at 

 Oxford and here, and of HaJictus tumulorum, Linn., (J frequently. 



In conclusion, I must state that Mr. Edward Saunders has very kindly named 

 for me a very great number of the moi*e puzzling of these species. — Eobt. C. L. 

 Perkins, Sopworth Rectory, Chippenham, and Jesus College, Oxford : Sept., 1886. 



Chrysis iijnita preyed upon hy Xysticus cristatus. — On 4th September last in 

 Grisel-bottom — a valley adjoining Burwell Wood near Louth in Lincolnshire — I 

 observed a spider, Xysticus cristatus, Clk., on the sweetly-scented yellow flowers of 

 the agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoriaj , preying upon a Chrysis ignita. This lovely 

 little insect, which is able to roll itself up in a ball when alarmed, had been overcome 

 by the skill of the Xysticus. — -H. Wallis Kew, Louth, Lincolnshire : Oct. 6th, 1886. 



If^ote on some Bees and the flowers of Snapdragons. — Having this year a great 

 quantity of Antirrhinum majus growing together, I have made, during the month of 

 August, many and continuous observations of the behaviour of some kinds of bees 

 with the flowers, which in the main corroborate those of the late Mr. E. Newman, 

 communicated to the Entomological Society (Proceed., 1850, p. 36). He enumerates 



4 kinds, but names only one (No. 1), designating the others as " Bomhus ? " with 



numbers 2 to 4 ; these numbers I adopt here, assuming from the identity of proceeding 

 in the bees I have seen with that recorded by Mr. Newman that the kinds are the 

 same; the specific names of these, and also of Nos. 5 to 7, have been kindly furnished 

 by Mr. Edward Saunders from individuals taken in the acts mentioned. 



No. 1. Megachile centuncularis. — This I have not seen ; it is said to enter the 

 flowers back downwards. 



No. 2. Bomlus Derhamellus, ^ . — This invariably enters the flowers back 



