2]_2 [September, 



Prosopis cornuta, Smith. — I took three $ of this very rare and singular bee, 

 by sweeping in a strip of weeds (in which wild carrot predominated), between 

 Walmer and Kingsdown, in the latter part of July and August 1st. P. dilatata, 

 Kirb. — Two 9 of this scarce species turned up in my net in the same spot as the 

 above, and under similar conditions. 



Sphecodes spinulosvs, v. Hag. — Both sexes of this rare and distinct species 

 appeared quite unexpectedly in the beginning of June, at St. Margaret's Bay. This 

 seems to be the first occasion on which the male of this species has been taken so 

 early in the year in this country. I could not, however, find any males of S. 

 xantJiopus out at the same time, they did not appear the autumn before until very 

 late (Sept. 13th to 20th). The only other British Sphecodes having a spring male 

 is S. ruhicundus. It is parasitic on an Andrena, and this fact would account for the 

 unusual time of appearance in its case. 



Nomada lineola, Panz. — One $ , Betteshanger, near Deal, May 25th. N.fiavo- 

 guttata. Kirb. — One $ , Betteshanger, April 23rd. 



Podalirius retusus, Linn. — A large colony of this species was found nesting in 

 a bank at Betteshanger, where I took both sexes in excellent condition. 



Osniia hicolor, Schrk. — Two ? , St. Margaret's Bay, on Lotus corniculatus. 

 0. autulenta, in many places the commoner species of the two, is abundant all along 

 the coast, but these are the only captures of O. bicolor I have made in the district. 



Thg following notes may also be of interest. My capture of a ? of Pompilus 

 CAporus) unicolor at the foot of the cliff at St. Margaret's Bay was recorded in 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., vol. xxxiv, page 20. The species is very rare in this country, 

 only one or two isolated specimens having been taken over a long period of years. 

 To-day (Aug. 11th), however, I found it to be quite the representative of its family 

 all along the sea front, where I took no less than twelve $ and three ? , mostly on 

 wild carrot, besides several $ which escaped through the meshes of my net. The 

 (Js varied in length from 5 to 9 mm. 



The other rarities I recorded from St. Margaret's Bay last year (Ent. Mo. Mag., 

 vol. xxxiii, page 229), have occurred again this year at their respective habitats. 



The much-prized Andrena Sattorjiana was less rare at its well-known habitat 

 between Walmer and Kingsdown than I have previously known it to be, and I 

 secured some really good specimens of the $ through visiting the spot, I believe, 

 exactly at the right time, i. e., when the Knautia was just commencing to come out. 

 The males are difiicult to see and catch, as they seldom settle and " go to sleep " 

 like the ? s on the flower heads, their plan being to dart from flower to flower 

 searching for their mates thus engaged. By taking up my position near a con- 

 spicuous fully-opened flower while the latter were still scarce, I did not have to wait 

 long before a $ came up, and then with a quick stroke of the net I was generally 

 able to secure him. By this means I took about a dozen splendid specimens in one 

 morning. Three days afterwards, however, the same plan did not produce a single 

 specimen good enough to keep. 



I observed Anthidium manicatum busy gathering the down from off the flower 

 stalks of Achillea millefolium at Kingsdown. I have seen it similarly employed on 

 Stachys sylvatica, but not on this plant before. Another female of this species 

 which had evidently made its nest in a hole between two bricks in our garden wall 

 at Eipple, I noticed filling up the crevice with lumps of dry earth which she picked 



