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know this beautiful "Copper" no more, while C. thersamon and 

 other interesting species will probably share the same fate.* 



Leaving the meadows which proved so unprofitable, I went 

 up a sandy lane on the left, the banks of which were thickly 

 covered with sloe bushes ; flitting round these were numbers of 

 S. acacia, all in beautifully fresh condition, while another D. 

 pandora found its way into my net. Every sloe bush had three 

 or four clusters of the orange eggs of A. cratcegi upon it, and in 

 one place were covered with the enormous full-fed larvae of 

 Satumia pini. 



The following day I left Budapest, and arrived in London 

 two days later. 



BEES OF THE GENUS MEGACHILE FROM 

 AUSTRALIA. 



By T. D. A. Cockerell. 



Megachile cornifera, Rad. 



This remarkable insect was described as from Sydney, where 

 it certainly never was found. It has been rediscovered by Mr. 

 Horace Brown at Southern Cross, two hundred and sixty miles 

 inland from Perth, Western Australia ; both sexes were forwarded 

 to me by Professor Froggatt. The male, not before known, 

 resembles the female, but is more slender, about 19 mm. long, 

 the quite narrow face covered with light yellow hair, and without 

 prominences ; eyes red ; anterior tarsi flattened, very light yellow 

 with a large ferruginous spot at the end of each joint, the last 

 joint ferruginous, the first joint very short, crescentic, the whole 

 tarsus very broadly fringed on each side with white hair ; 

 anterior coxse with long curved spines ; hind tarsi extremely 

 long ; middle tarsi short ; sixth abdominal segment with a broad 

 transverse keel, obliquely emarginate in middle ; venter of abdo- 

 men with much white hair. Also at Southern Cross, Mr. Brown 

 collected a female of M.fumipennis (Froggatt, 205). 



:;; I traversed this same ground on July 16th ; the morning brilliantly 

 fine, the afternoon attended by a downpour of tropical violence. The sole 

 Chrysophanid observed was B. phlceas (one specimen), and hardly a butterfly 

 was' to be seen, except S. circe, on the sandy cart-track just before coming to 

 the village of Kamaerardo. Evidently the second generation of C. dispar 

 var. rutilus, and C. thersamon had not emerged here ; but, as Mr. Gurney 

 points out, the cutting had been conducted ruthlessly, and the mortality of 

 larvae must have been enormous. I may add that on this ground I was asked 

 by the forester for my "permit." I need scarcely say I had none, but I 

 made him understand I was an English entomologist, and he appeared quite 

 satisfied to let me proceed in peace. My bag for a six hours' day was abso- 

 lutely nil ! C. thersamon, second generation, at Farkes Volgy, outside the 

 Bude Cemetery, fresh, July 17th.— H. R.-B. 



