The most conspicuous species are the _Hattorfiana_ and the _Rosæ_ for size and colour; the _Schrankella_ is also a very pretty species; and perhaps the commonest of all the _cingulata_ is the prettiest of all, with its yellow nose and red abdomen; in the next section we may point out the _longipes_ as being a very elegant insect,[3] as are also the _chrysosceles_ and the _helvola_. In this section we find those most subject to the attacks of the _Stylops_, for instance the _labialis_, _convexiuscula_, _picicornis_, _Afzeliella_, _nigro-ænea_, _Trimmerana_, _Gwynana_, etc. The whole of the third and fourth sections are splendid insects, especially the _fulva_ in the last. The comparative rarity of some results chiefly from an exceedingly local habitat. Many of the species may be found everywhere where insects can be collected, consequently, all over the United Kingdom. In all the three seasons of the year, which prompt animal life, some of the species may be collected, and the flowers they chiefly prefer are the catkins, especially of the sallow, the early flowering-fruits, the hedge-row blossoms, the heath, the broom, the dandelion, chickweed, and very many others. Footnote 3: This insect was first captured by me, and with this, my manuscript name, attached to it, it was distributed to entomologists with an unsparing hand. The ordinary courtesy of the science has been, for the describer, when not the capturer, to adopt and circulate the original authority, and not to appropriate it. Similar buccaneering has been practised with poor Bainbridge’s _Osmia pilicornis_, to which he had attached this manuscript name, he being the first to introduce it, having caught it at Birchwood. ------- Genus 5. CILISSA, _Leach_. (Plate V. fig. 1 ♂ ♀.) MELITTA ** _c_, partly, Kirby.—ANDRENA, Fab. Latreille.