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3. Colletes niarginata, Smith, Bees Great Brit. p. 5 ; 



Schenck, Hym. Nassau., p. 300. 

 Apis niarginata, Liirn. MSS. in Linnean Cabinet, male. 

 ColletevS snccincla, Nylaud. Ap. Boreal. 206. 

 This is the smallest species of the genus found in this 

 country ; it is extremely rare, and was discovered by Mr. S. 

 Stevens at Little Hampton ; I subsequently met with it, in 

 1846, at Deal, on the western side of the sand-hills ; since 

 that lime I have not taken it. 



4. Colletes Daviesana, Smith, Bees Great Brit. p. 6 ; 



Schenck, Hym. Nassau, p. 300. 

 Melitta Daviesana, Kirhifs MSS., interleaved copy of 

 Man. Ap. Angl. 

 The most abundant species of the genus in the South of 

 England : very large colonies occur in Kent and Surrey, in 

 hard compact sand-banks : it is plentifid in VVhilesaud Bay, 

 at the Land's End, and i have taken it in Yorkshire. 



The males of this genus of bees are somewhat difficult to 

 separate ; that of C. marginata is the smallest, that of C. suc- 

 cincta the largest. The male of C. fodiens has the abdomen 

 very closely punctured and semi-opaque. 'I'he n)ale of C. 

 Daviesana may be known by its having the fasciae on the 

 margins of the abdominal segments continued beneath, curving 

 inwardly, but not uniting in the middle. 



Frederick Smith. 

 (To be continued). 



Entomological Notes and Captures. 



Pierophon/s Hieracii, Zel. — The larvae of the insect we 

 have in our collections as P. Hieracii have at last been dis- 

 covered simultaneously by Mr. Greening, at Delamere Forest, 

 and by myself, at Pant Moen and at Pen-y-Garrowin, in 

 North Wales, feeding upon Teucrium Scorodonia ; and we 

 shall now be able to ascertain what difference, if any, exists 

 between the larvae of our insect and Zeller's P. Hieracii, 

 which is said to feed on Hieracium urabellatum, in June. 

 We took oJir larvae at the end of April, and now (May 19th) 

 many of them are nearly full-fed. I must say I never could 

 reconcile the Delamere and Welsh specimens with some 



