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which certainly might not be recognized from 

 its outward appearance, as there are many which 

 very closely resemble it, is still one of our greatest 

 rarities, only three British examples having been 

 recorded. The first was taken by Sir Sidney 

 Saunders at Chewton, Hants, on the twelfth of 

 August, 1879 ; this was a male ; the second, 

 a female, was taken by Mr. T. R. Billups at 

 Woking, on the first of August, 1881 ; and the 

 third by myself at Chobham (about four miles 

 from Woking) on the first of August, 1891. 

 I believe in all cases these were taken on yellow 

 composite flowers. The flight and behaviour 

 of the male I caught were so peculiar, as 

 it wriggled itself into the flower, that I knew 

 at once I had caught a rarity, and remarked 

 to my companions that I believed I had got a 

 Dufourea. I also hazarded the remark that 

 it was " ten years since it had been taken." 

 When I got home and looked up the former record 

 it was ten years to a day. Now there are few 

 places in England that have been better worked 

 for the bee tribe than the Woking, Chobham, and 

 Weybridge neighbourhood ; it has been worked 

 by experienced men who would see a difference 



