160 [July, 



the Gelechidcd, or whether instead the arrangement was that of Micros 

 generally, viz., a single pair of spots, each with two hair?, one long, 

 the other short. The larva spun up in situ, and the moth came out 

 in September. 



KosLERSTAMMiA Eexlebella. — Some doubt was thrown in the 

 pages of this Magazine (vol. xvi, p. 94) upon the mining habits of the 

 larva of Erxlebella when young. There is no question, however, 

 about the correctness of this phase in its natural history, and what is 

 more, some degree of specialization is shown by a particular part of 

 the leaf being invariably selected. This part is the pointed tip. The 

 mine is a rather broad and conspicuous gallery, it follows the edge of 

 the lime leaf and passes round the point, but reaches considerably 

 further on one side than on the other. The larva moults (its first 

 moult, I imagine) just before it leaves to spend the rest of its life 

 exposed on the under-side of the leaf. 



Tiirriiigtoii, Ledburj : 



June 7th, 1895. 



DASYPODA EATON r, SAUND., AND CINGULATA, ERICHSON. 

 BY EDWARD SAtJNDEES, F.L.S. 



The appearance of Prof. v. Dalla Torre and H. Friese's Catalogue 

 of the pollen collecting bees of Europe has reminded me of two cor- 

 rections which I have for some time intended to make in the synonymy 

 of the species of Dasypoda as given in Schletterer's most useful 

 Monograph published in the Berl. Ent. Zeitschr., Bd. xxxv, p. 11, 

 et seq. 



In vol. xviii of this Magazine, p. 167, in my " Notes on the Ento- 

 mology of Portugal, Hym. Acul.," I described the ($ of a new species 

 of Dasypoda, under the name of Eatoni, and recorded the capture of 

 four (^ of what I determined to be cingulata, Eriehs. ; the former of 

 these Schletterer places as a synonym of discincta, Rossi, although he 

 expresses some doubt as to the certainty of this determination. 



The characters he assigns to the (^ of discincta are so clearly de- 

 fined that I can positively state that my species is abundantly distinct ; 

 it has neither the curved femora nor the apically produced tibiae of 

 discincta, of which species I possess several examples. It belongs, 

 however, to the short cheeked division, of which three other species. 



