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twenty-five species are now recorded for the first time, many 

 being rare and local. CcElwxys afra is an especially interesting 

 capture, as it is a southern species, common in Algeria and 

 the south of Spain, and not known before to occur further 

 north. Four specimens were taken near Vazon Bay on 

 July 18th, flying in company with Megachile argentata, one 

 of the Leaf-cutter Bees, a species Avith which it asso- 

 ciates. A little bronzy Halictus, of which one specimen 

 only was taken on the cliffs at Moulin Huet, is a species 

 closely allied to subauratns^ and Mr. Saunders says it may 

 turn out to be another of these interesting southern forms. 

 The specimen was worn, and it was difficult to determine the 

 exact species. A minute species, Diodontus fvlesei {?) of 

 Avhicli several specimens were captured, has not yet been 

 recordcil for Britain, but has been taken by Mr. Saunders in 

 Jersey.* 



Mr. Marquand has also taken a number of Ichneumon 

 Flies, of which ten species are additions to the Guernsey list 

 already published. These have been named by Mr. Claude 

 Morley, F.E.S., who is the author of the most recent work on 

 the British species. 



Two additions to our list of the Diptera have to be 

 recorded, viz. : Merodou e(ptestriH, var. narcissi, one specimen 

 of which Avas captured by Mr. Marquand on the Petit Bot 

 Cliffs on August 1st. Two specimens of Miltogranuna 

 punctatum were taken by myself at Cobo. 



On September 29th I was greatly surprised and delighted 

 to receive a living specimen of a large Mantis which was 

 found walking along a pathway in Dr. Francis Carey's garden 

 in the Grange. It is, I believe, a specimen of Mantis religiosa, 

 an insect not uncommon in Central France and which has 

 been recorded as occurring as far north as Havre. 



* Since the above was written, Mr. Saunders has published the following note 

 in The Entomolofjisfs Monthly Mcif/azinc for February, 1907 :— " The occurrence of 

 Dioduntus fjnesei, Kohl., in the Channel Islands is of great interest. I took a few 

 in Jersey, but have not hitherto recorded it, as at the time I thought it was only 

 minutus. The male may be easily known from that species by the form of the in- 

 termediate metatarsi ; in minutus these are much produced and widened towards 

 the apex, in friesei they are bent but hardly widened ; like minutus it has the 

 mandibles yellow. Hitherto it has only been recorded as a South European and 

 Mediterranean species. 



The capture of Ccelioxys afro is, I think, still more interesting. In this 

 country I have sought in vain for any of the small red-tailed Ccelioxys associating 

 with Megachile argentata. I was much pleased to find Ccelioxys brevis with M. 

 argentata in Jersey, and now C. afra turns up with it in Giiernsey. 



It is curious that in each island Megachile argeritata should have a different 

 species to associate with it ; possibly, however, both species may yet be found in 

 both islands. Both these little species belong to a group we have no exponents of 

 in Britain, and which is peculiar in having the white bands of the abdomen formed 

 of scale-like hairs. They are both common in South Europe ; C. brevis has occurred 

 in Central Europe, but I have always looked upon C. afra as quite a southern 

 form. 



