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Frodsham, J.R.H., and at Simmonswood Moss, 

 Dr. Cotton. 



C. fodiens, Kirb. — This coast species has been taken at 

 Southport, B.C. 



C. marginata, Sm. — balteata, Nyl., Thorns. — Wallasey 

 sandhills, H.H.H. 



C. Daviesana, Sm. — Burrows in sandstone near Wallasey 

 village, J.T.Gr., by the banks of the Mersey, near 

 Manchester, and beside the Bollin river, near 

 Bowden, J.R.H. 



C. cunicularia, Linn. — This is one of the specially in- 

 teresting Bees of our district, the species being 

 peculiar to it as far as the British Islands are 

 concerned. The first known capture was on the 

 Wallasey sandhills on the 4th of May, 1855, by 

 the Rev. H. H. Higgins, who, however, only 

 noted it in his private diary. In 1867 several 

 specimens of the bee were taken at the same place 

 by Mr. N. Cooke, brother to Mr. Benjamin 

 Cooke ; the fact of the discovery of this addition 

 to our British fauna by Mr. Cooke was announced 

 by Mr. F. Smith in " Ent. Mon. Mag.," 1869, 

 p. 276 ; but, owing to the specimens having been 

 inadvertently transferred to a box containing 

 some Isle of Wight captures, the locality was 

 recorded as Ventnor. In 1870 Mr. Cooke found 

 further examples of the bees at their burrows at 

 Wallasey, v. "Ent. Ann.," 1870. From that 

 time to the present the insect has been taken 

 freely in the same locality, where it is in fact 

 abundant, making its burrows gregariously in 

 various parts of the sandhills. It has also since 

 been discovered to have a much more extended 

 range in our two counties than was at first sup- 



