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but apparently rather local : I found it in great numbers in 

 Wliitesand Bay, near the Land's End, in autumn ; also at 

 Cromer, and on Mousehold Heath, near Norwich, The 

 female is often mixed with that of H. cyliudricus as small 

 examples of that species ; but in the first place it is a much 

 smaller insect, the pubescence on its head and thorax 

 griseous, the enclosed semicircular space at the base of the 

 metathorax is not so coarsely sculptured, and on each side 

 of the space is a smooth rounded edge. The male may 

 always be distinguished by its yellow mandibles, labrum, and 

 anterior margin of the clypeus ; the abdomen has the three 

 basal segments more or less red. 



15. Halictus villosulus. 



Melitta villosula, Kirhy, Mon. Ap. Angl. ii. 62, male. 



M. punctata. Id. QQ, female. 



Halictus villosulus, Smith, Zool. vi. 2105 ; Nyland. Apum 

 Boreal, p. 246. 



A most abundant species, at once distinguished from the 

 females of the other small Halicti by its coarsely-punctured 

 thorax ; the abdomen is also entirely covered with fine punc- 

 tures ; the apex of the abdomen is more pubescent than in 

 most of the smaller species ; the metathorax rounded, and 

 the tegulffi dark fusco-testaceous ; the legs obscure rufo- 

 testaceous, sometimes black. The male is covered with pale 

 erect pubescence; the fiagellum fulvous beneath ; the thorax 

 with strong scattered puncures. 



Frederick Smith. 



(To be continued). 



Entomological Notes, Captures, Sfc. 



Black Specimen of Pieris Brassicce and P. Rapce. — I have 

 in my collection a curious specimen of Pieris Brassicae, cap- 

 lured last season by a friend, about two miles from Perth : it 

 is a female, and is of a uniform dusky black colour, both ou 

 the upper and under sides ; the black spots on the wings are 

 quite distinct, being of a much more intense and shining 



