Dear Peter Kevan possibibly Anthidium manicatum was introduced in Brazil with furniture which European immmigrants brought from the Old World during the last century. The species was already recorded from Minas Gerais to Rio Grande do Sul. According Prof.Pe.J.S. Moure, the preferred plants of this bee in Curitiba, Parana, are Leonurus sibiricus (Labiatae) and Antirrhinum majus (Scrophulariaceae). Males hide in the flowers of Antirrhinum waiting for females. In Uruguaiana, Rio Grande do Sul, we found this species on flowers of Jacaranda mimosifoliae (Bignoniaceae). We have some individual in our collection. Betina Blochtein PUC-University, Lab.Pesq.Biologicas da Univ. Tuebingen, RFA Av.Ipiranga, 6681 90.620 Porto Alegre, RS BRAZIL Phone: (01512) 391511 Ramal 3280 Fax: (0512)391564 bitnet: [log in to unmask]