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Hastings; Southwold ; Heme Bay. Deal; Weybridge ; 

 Blackwater, Hants; Birchwood, Kent; Ilfracombe; Sid- 

 mouth; Clifton, near Bristol; {Smith). Bury St. 

 Edmunds; (Tuck). Land's End ; {Marquand). Bewdley ; 

 {Marshall). Colcliester ; {ITarwood). Peterborough; 

 Blandford : {Dale). Maidstone; {Frisby). Norfolk; 

 {Brid(jman). Occurs from June to August associating 

 with Omnia fulviventris. 



S. phoeoptera, liirh. — Very like aterrima but rather 

 more shining, the scutellum without distinct lateral teeth 

 at the base, and the segments of the abdomen without palo 

 apical bands. Genital armature very small, shaped much 

 as in aterrima. 



L. 8-9 mm. 



Rare; associates with 0. fulviventris. Battersea; 

 Hammersmith; Fulham ; {Smith). Exeter; {Farfitt). 

 Addiscombe ; {Rothney). Sidmouth ; Chippenham; (B. 

 C. L. Ferkins). Glanvilles Wootton ; Dorchester; {Dale). 

 Land's End; (Marquand). Allingtou, near Maidstone; 

 {Frisly). Bury St. Edmunds; {Tuck). 



S. OCto-maculata, Smith. — Smaller than either of 

 the preceding and less coarsely punctured, and at once 

 distinguished by the yellow spots of the abdomen, of which 

 there are two oval ones on the basal and second segment, 

 and a transverse spot on each side of the third and fourth, 

 those of the fourth in the <? being divided into two, in this 

 Bex there is also a single spot on the fifth ; scutellum 

 slightly produced, subangular, pointed in the middle. 



L. 6-7 mm. 



Very rare. Associates with Osmia leucomelana. Hawley, 

 near Blackwater, Hants ; Sidmouth ; {Smith) . Exeter ; 

 {Farjitt). 



ANTHIDIUM, Fab. 

 Of this extensive genus, which is found in both tlie old 



