22 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



but as they always seem to be in the centre of a thick furze 

 bush the capture necessitates no small amount of agony. 

 Amphydasis hetularia and Chelonia villica also attract males 

 in the dusk of the evening. I have also several times 

 discovered the females of Hepiaius hectus and H. sylvinus 

 by making a diligent search in spots where the males were 

 hovering. — E. K. Robinson; St. Leonard's, Oct. 19, 1877. 



Macropis labiata, Panz. — I am indebted to the Rev. J. 

 L. Brown for the first specimen of this insect captured in 

 Norfolk. He industriously collected insects of all orders to 

 make microscopic preparations, and before putting them into 

 spirit very kindly let me look them over and take what I 

 wanted ; and it was amongst one of these gatherings I found 

 my first male Macropis labiata, taken on the 8th or 10th July, 



1874, but where he could not remember, whether at Brundall 

 or Swainslhorpe. I could not find it that year; but next, 



1875, I took one male on the creeping thistle at the former 

 locality. In 1876 I took seven more males at the same 

 flower. This present year (1877) I took the first on the 15th 

 of July, and they were to be seen till the middle of August; 

 this year I took the males, not only at the above-mentioned 

 plant, but also at the lA/simachia, mint and marsh Potevtilla. 

 On the 5th of August 1 took the first British female at the 

 creeping thistle, and on the 14th I took ten more; most of 

 these were more or less imperfect; of these latter two were 

 on the creeping thistle, but not one of these three had any 

 pollen ; the others were all at the Lysimachia, and had their 

 legs well covered with the pollen, and had evidently drawn 

 their supply from that flower. The insect is a very swift 

 flyer, but not at all active when on the flowers. The locality 

 where they are found is by the side of a boggy marsh, but 

 has much higher ground by the side of it : I am inclined to 

 believe they burrow into a dry-ditch bank. I am greatly 

 indebted to Mr. F. Smith for advice as to where to look for 

 the missing female. Should any hymenopterists have a vacant 

 place in their collection, 1 have a few duplicates left, which 

 I shall be happy to distribute as far as they will go. — John 

 B, Bridgman ; Norwich. 



CoLEOPTERA-HUNTiNG IN 1877. — During the past year my 

 Coleoptera-hnnUw^ has been very successful, although I have 

 not devoted very much time to it. In the early part of .lune, 

 in beating the blossoms of the hawthorn, 1 took a specimen of 

 Orsodaciia vigriceps, about a mile from Oxford, and although 

 1 sought diligently I did not see another example. In 



