ADDITIONAL NOLES 
VDE IN JUNE CAND JULY. 1962 
The Season of 1912.—Queens of the common species were 
unusually abundant in the spring of 1912, probably as 
the result of the favourable summer of 1911. On still, 
warm days their murmur, searching for nests in woods 
and copses, was continuous, and it was often possible to 
guess correctly which species was searching in one’s vicinity 
by its note alone, that of B. terrestris being the loudest 
and most often heard. But although the weather con- 
tinued very favourable, nests in June and July were scarce, 
and it was found that large numbers had been destroyed 
in early stages by Brachycoma devia. 
Microsporidiosis in Humble-bees.—In the Report on the 
Isle of Wight Bee Disease (Microsporidiosis) issued by the 
Board of Agriculture in May 1912, Dr. H. B. Fantham 
and Dr. Graham-Smith state that they have found in the 
chyle stomach and Malpighian tubes of a number of dead 
and dying specimens of B. lapidarius, terrestris, and hor- 
torum, picked up under trees at Cambridge and elsewhere 
in August and September IgII, a protozoal parasite be- 
longing to the genus Mosema, resembling JV. afzs, which 
has recently caused enormous mortality amongst honey- 
bees in certain parts of Britain. 
How the First Eggs are laid (p. 19).—The lump contain- 
ing the first eggs was carefully examined in several nests 
in 1912. A nest of 4. lapzedarius had 12 eggs, all in one 
cell, and laid in a bundle. A nest of vuderatus had 14 
eggs, each occupying a separate bed in the pollen. Another 
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