62 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



on the ' Bees of Great Britain,' Colleles cunictilaria had not 

 been discovered in ibis country ; but fourteen years after- 

 wards, in 1869, it was found near Liverpool. In the following 

 spring Mr. Carringlon forwarded a number of this bee 

 alive : these 1 took to Shirley Common, where, selecting 

 a suitable situation, I made a number of burrows in a sandy 

 slope, into each of which I put a male and a female bee, in 

 the hope of establishing a colony. I was not very sanguine 

 of success, having tried similar experiments with other 

 insects. I brought Philanthus triangulum from the Isle of 

 Wight, Mellimts sabulosus from Suffolk, and in both cases I 

 failed to establish the species in a new locality; probably if 

 I had dug the insects out of their burrows, instead of taking 

 them on the wing, T should have had a better chance of 

 success. My endeavour to localise the Colleles cunicularia, 

 to my great satisfaction, proved a success: a young entomo- 

 logist brought to me twelve months afterwards a box of bees 

 for examination ; among them 1 found two specimens of the 

 Colleles, which he told me he captured on Shirley Common, 

 describing the situation in which he found them. This was 

 the very spot where 1 had left them. This success is worthy 

 of being recorded, it being the only instance that has come 

 to my knowledge in which complete success has attended such 

 an experiment. 1 am warranted in saying complete, because 

 Mr. Carrington, who supplied me with the living bees, last year 

 look the Colleles himself at the new locality at Shirley. 



Andrena ferox — one of the rarest species of the genus to 

 which it belongs, and which has only previously been taken 

 near Bristol — was found last summer, by Mr. E. A. Butler, 

 at G nestling, near Hastings. Another of the rarest of our 

 British bees, Macropis labiala, has also occurred near 

 Norwich. The first specimen of this bee, of which we have 

 any record of its being found in England, is one in the 

 collection of the British Museum. For many years this was 

 unique : it was taken by Dr. Leach, in Devonshire, probably 

 half a century ago. Some five and twenty years subsequent 

 to Dr. Leach's capture, a second specimen M'as taken by Mr. 

 John Walton, in the New Forest : this was deposited in the 

 Shuckardian collection, which perished on its transit from 

 London to Bristol on the Great Western Railway. In 1842 

 Mr. S. Stevens took a third exaniple, at Weybridge, on the 



