i48 [December, 



specimens. It seems to be generally associated with the harebell. 

 Smith says he never found it in any other flower, this is certainly not 

 my experience, on the contrary, I have never found it on that flower, 

 but while looking after Andrena hicolor, Fab., the first thing I saw in 

 the Mallow flowers was this bee, and on them I succeeded in securing 

 a good series, and I have taken ^ and ? in coitu ; only twice have I 

 seen it in the Canterbury-bell, which is a common flower in the woods. 



Nomada alternata, Kirb., has been double-brooded this year, the 

 second brood made its appearance in August, and continued on the 

 wing till the 19th September, on which day I captured the last 

 specimens ; these seem paler and brighter than the spring brood. 



N. Fahriciana, Linn., which appears to be parasitic on Halictus 

 rubicundus, Chr., was very plentiful in the spring, while N. rujlcornis, 

 Linn., was decidedly scarce. 



Of the OsmicB, riifa, Linn., swarmed ; auriilenta, Panz., was more 

 abundant than usual, and seemed particularly partial to the flowers of 

 the common bugle — it is quite a wood insect ; hicolor, Schr., as usual 

 was on the slopes of the hills and in the woods, and seemed to occur 

 pretty generally round the district, and we saw it several times con- 

 veying bents, which peculiar habit I drew attention to last year in 

 this Magazine — of this last I captured three or four (^ ; fuJviventris, 

 Panz., which generally burrows in posts, we found making its nidus 

 along with 7'ufa between the stones of my brother's garden wall. 

 Megachile centiincularis, Linn., was there also in great numbers, making 

 use of the leaves of CirccBa hitetiana for its nidus. 



JBomhus cognatus, Steph., is generally scarce ; we found one nest, 

 and my nephew secured one very curious mouse-coloured specimen of 

 this bee. He also captured in the early spring a very fine specimen 

 of Bomhus dlstinguendiis, Mor., ? , the only one that has yet occurred 

 about here. 



I have now one more observation to record, and that is on the 

 neuration of the anterior-wings of some of the insects captured during 

 this season. Variations in the anterior-wings of bees being very rare, 

 are all worth recording, and I have met with no less than three distinct 

 variations among our captures, and one of these I consider very 

 remarkable. 



1. In one SpJiecodes ferriiginafus, Schk., there are two sub-marginal 

 cells in the right anterior- wing, while the left has only one, and with 

 just a slight trace, or I should say, short petiole, where the start of 

 the second uervure should be. 



