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do. (Budd.) ; 7. B. rajellus K. 5 and 5, do. (H. M., Kn.) ; 8. B. sylvarum L. $, do. 

 (H.M.); 9. B. terrester L. 5, perforating the flowers, and stealing nectar (H.M., Kn.); 

 10. Eucera longicornis L. 5 and S, skg. (Budd., Kn.); 11. Megachile circumcincta 

 K. ?, do. (Budd.) ; 12. Osmia aurulenta Pz. 5, in large numbers, skg. (Budd.) ; 13. O. 

 rufa Z. 5, freq., skg. (Budd.), stealing nectar through holes made by B. terrester L 

 (H. M.). B. biptera. Bombyliidae: 14. Bombylius canescens j'l//>^a«., skg. (Budd.). 



Wustnei saw Eucera longicornis Z. in the island of Alsen. 



Alfken noticed the following bees at Bremen. — 



I. Andrena convexiuscula K. S; 2. A. xanthura K. 5; 3. Bombus arenicola 

 Ths. 5 ; 4. B. derhamellus A!". 5; 5. B. lapidarius Z. 5; 6. B. muscorum Z'. 5 ; 7. B. 

 sylvarum Z. 5 and 5 ; 8. B. terrester Z. 5 (perforating the corollas) ; 9. Eucera difficilis 

 (Duf.) Per. 5. 



Loew also saw Eucera in Brandenburg ; Bombus agrorum F. 5, skg., in the 

 Berlin Botanic Garden ; and Megachile sp. in Silesia. 



The following bees, &c., were noticed by the observers and at the places stated. — 



Schenck (Nassau), i. Bombus confusus Schenck; 2. B. lapidarius Z.; 3. B. 

 pomorum Pz.\ 4. Eucera longicornis Z. ; 5. Podalirius retusus Z. ; and 6. the 

 Sphegid Gorytes mystaceus Z. : Rossler (Wiesbaden), the moth Toxocampa craccae 

 F.: Friese (Baden), Andrena xanthura Z!"., n. sp. : Hoffer (Steiermark), i. Bombus 

 lapidarius Z. 5 and 5 I 2. B. derhamellus K. 5 and 5 '• Dalla Torre and Schletterer 

 (Tj'rol), I. Bombus derhamellus K.'<^\ 2. B. variabilis Schmiedekn., var. tristis Seidl. 5 ; 

 3. Andrena xanthura Z'. 5 ; 4. Halictus major Nyl. $. 



Herm. Miiller, in the Alps, saw Bombus mastrucatus Gersl. 5 getting the nectar 

 by perforation (' Alpenblumen,' p. 249). Schulz also noticed humble-bees steahng 

 in the same way. 



MacLeod saw Bombus variabilis Schmiedekn. 5 in the Pyrenees (Bot. Jaarb. 

 Dodonaea, Ghent, iii, 1891, p. 438); and, in Flanders, 2 humble-bees, an Andrena, 

 a Lepidopterid, Bombus terrester Z. stealing nectar by perforation. Apis and Osmia 

 sucking nectar through the holes thus made (op. cit., vi, 1894, p. 358). H. de Vries 

 noticed a humble-bee, Bombus sylvarum Z. 5, skg., in the Netherlands (Ned. Kruidk. 

 Arch., Nijmegen, 2. ser., 2. deel, 1875). 



In Dumfriesshire 3 humble-bees were recorded (Scott-Elliot, ' Flora of Dumfries- 

 shire,' p. 50). 



Von Fricken, at Arnsberg, saw the Curculionid Bruchus pisi Z. as an injurious 

 visitor. 



764. V. sativa L. (Sprengel, 'Entd. Geh.,' p. 357; Heinsius, Bot. Jaarb. 

 Dodonaea, Ghent, iv, 1892, pp. 96-100 ; Kirchner, ' Neue Beob.,' p. 44, 'Flora v. 

 Stuttgart,' p. 506; Schulz, ' Beitrage,' II, p. 2 1 1 ; Knuth, ' Bloemenbiol. Bijdragen.') — 

 In this species the alae are usually violet in colour, the vexillum hiac, and the carina 

 whitish with a blue tip. Kirchner says that the union of the alae with the carina, 

 eflfected in the usual way, is rendered so firm by the mutual interlocking of the 

 epidermal cells of these petals, that the alae tear when pulled apart. The posterior 

 angles of the carina are drawn out into processes which lie upon the sexual column. 

 There are also finger-shaped alar processes, running backwards parallel to each 

 other. The upper filament is united with the other nine, but two nectar-passages 

 are left at its base. The style is about 2 mm. long, and bears a brush on its upper 

 half, the hairs of which are disposed all round it, and directed obliquely upwards. 

 Externally there is a tuft of longer protective hairs, projecting beyond the stigma. 



