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80 much so that when first seen I thought it was some queer 

 Geometer, and was surprised, after I had netted it, to find out 

 what it was. Unfortunately, the photograph is rather blurred, 

 and does not show the markings very clearly. The submarginal 

 rows of black spots on both wings are much larger than usual, 

 and those of the hind wings reach the apex of the marginal 

 black chevrons. The disc is paler and not so heavily marked as 

 in ordinary specimens. The markings on the under side are 

 almost similar. 



No. 2 is a beautiful variety of A. villica. The first example 

 of this striking form was taken here more than twenty years 

 ago. It was discovered by Colonel A. J. H. Ward, D.L., V.D., 

 sitting on a bush in his garden ; and he was so struck by its 

 beauty that he sent and asked me to come and look at it, as he 

 thought it might be of use to me. Of course I was delighted 

 when I saw it, and boxed it at once ! Since then I have bred a 

 few, and nearly always of the same type ; as it seems to be 

 peculiar to this neighbourhood, I think it deserves a varietal 

 name, and I have therefore called it ivardi in honour of its finder. 

 There is no need to give a description as the figure is so clear. 

 It seems to be a very uncommon variety, for I have not bred 

 many out of the hundreds of larvse I have reared year after year. 

 In addition to this form, I have bred one or two nice specimens 

 having the basal spots of upper wings united. 



No. 3 is an extremely beautiful and asymmetrical variety, 

 and was the only variety bred out of some two hundred larvae I 

 reared last season. 



Lee House, Dovercourt, February 7th, 1914. 



NEW AND LITTLE KNOWN BEES. 

 By T. D. a. Cockerell. 



Anthophorula bruneri (Crawford). 

 Dallas, Texas, on Helianthus, September 22nd, 1905, four 

 males (F. C. Bishopp). 



Anthophorula morgani, sp. nov. 

 $. Length 6 mm. or slightly over; black, closely related to 

 A. hnmeri, but differing thus : smaller (size of male bruneri) ; wings 

 greyish, nervures and stigma dull dusky reddish (stigma in bruneri is 

 clear amber) ; hair on inner side of hind basitarsus dark fuscous ; 

 abdominal hair-bands whiter. The dusky stigma, dark tegulae and 

 well punctured mesothorax readily separate it from A. texana (Friese). 

 The well punctured mesothorax separates it at once from A. coquilletti 

 (Ashm.). From A. comjmctula (Ckll.) it is known by the less brightly 

 coloured flagellum, the black or piceous tegulae, and the broad, 



