156 Mr. Hardy's Botanical and Zoological Notices. 



2. — AcM^A. TESTUDiNALis. This shell may be looked for on 

 the Berwickshire coast. I have one slightly worn from shell-sand 

 at Greenhetigh, where the accompanying shells did not appear to 

 have travelled far. 



3. — AcHERONTiA. Ateopos. Two Death' s-Hcad Moths have 

 reached me this summer, from the vicinity of Cockburnspath. 

 The caterpillars were general in 1858, and, that year, I had two 

 of the moths from East Lothian. 



4. — Hive Bee carrying from Grass, &c. In the Scottish 

 Gardener, vol. Ill, 1854, I have recorded along series of Wild 

 Plants, 81 being enumerated, to which the Hive Bee resorts for 

 honey or pollen. On the 4th July, 1859, I was greatly surprised 

 to find a Bee engaged in detaching the poUen from the florets of 

 Holcus mollis. This was near half-past 7 in the evening, when the 

 day's labours were nearly over in the hive. It rested on the 

 flowers, and rubbed the anthers with its legs, scattering by this 

 means the pale sulphur-coloured dust, of which it obtained 

 a considerable quantity. The Common Dock (Kumex obtusifolius), 

 and the Knot Grass (Polygonum Avicularia) yield honey on several 

 occasions, as I have observed. 



5. — A Droste-Bee searching for Honey in Flowers. — It is 

 generally believed that the Drone-Bee makes no eflbrt to obtain 

 food out of doors. The following is a single instance to the 

 contrary. - On the 28th July, 1854, being in one of our deans, I 

 witnessed a Drone alight on the flowers of the wild Angelica, 

 (Angelica sylvestris), whose shallow cups are of a depth propor- 

 tioned to its short feeble proboscis. I stood beside it and watched 

 it from the instant it alighted, and it went on deliberately probing 

 each floret that came within its reach. Plying off, it spent a few 

 seconds upon the Meadow-sweet, but speedily correcting its 

 mistake, it sped once more to the plant that first attracted it. 

 Altogether I pursued its course from one umbel to another, for 

 about five minutes. 



