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come better acquainted with so singular a creature. When it was 

 completely disengaged, and I had secured it from making its escape, 

 I set myself to examine it as accurately as possible, and I found, 

 after careful enquiry, that I had got a nondescript, whose very 

 class [order] seemed dubious." Monograph. Apum Angl., ii. 113. 



Mr. Dale, who has been very successful in the discovery of in- 

 sects of this order, communicated the following observations to 

 Mr. Curtis, by whom they were published in the British Entomo- 

 logy, fol. 226, together with a beautiful illustration of Stylops Dalii 

 (fig. A, natural size ; B, magnified ; c, the andrena with the heads 

 of two of the larvae exposed between the segments of the abdomen ; 

 D, larva extracted and magnified), a species named after the gen- 

 tleman above mentioned, and whose remarks are as follows : 



" Every specimen of Andrena barbilabris I have seen this year 

 [1828J from the 27th April to the 4th June, have contained larvae, 

 pupae, or exuviae of Stylops, from one to three in each. On the 

 5th May, I picked out one with a pin : on the 7th another rather 



immature, and caught one flying in the hot sunshine over a quick- 

 set hedge in the garden ; it looked milk-white on the wing, with 

 a jet black body, and totally unlike any thing else ; it flew with an 

 undulating or vacillating motion amongst the young shoots, and I 



