1907.] 211 



getting to know it in all its variations, T at once saw that my supposed vincu'ella 

 was merely richardsoni, from some of my bred examples of which it is absolutely 

 inseparable. Had I known that you were intending to publish anything on the 

 subject, I should, of course, have told you of this change of opinion." {Banlces, 

 i. 1., 15.VIII.1907). I must now admit the error.and express my entire concurrence 

 with Mr. Bankos' opinion. — WALSiNOHAM.Merton Hall, Thetford : Aug. I7lh, 1907. 



Fompilus sanguinolentiis in Surrey. — I should be glad to briefly record the 

 occurrence of this Aculeate, which has been, up to the present, only known as 

 British by one ? taken in the New Forest in July, 1900, by Dr. Sharp. The speci- 

 men now recorded is a <? , and was taken August 1st, 1907. I shall hope to add a 

 further note at a later date.— C. H. Mortimer, Wigmore, Holmwood, Surrey : 

 August Wi, 1907. 



[Mr. Mortimer may well be congratulated on having discovered this rarity in 

 a fresh British locality ; although he at once recognised the species liimself, he has 

 since shown it to me, and very liberally added it to my collection. — E. Saunders]. 



Dbituarn. 



John Harrison. — The north of England has lost a well known Lepidoptei-ist 

 in the death of Mr. John Harrison, of Barnsley, which took place on July 11 th 

 last. Mr. Harrison was 73 years of age, and was out of doors on July 5th, when he 

 seems to have caught a chill, which developed into pleurisy and pneumonia with 

 fatal result in less than a week. For a very long period he was an active and en- 

 thusiastic collector, devoting his energies chiefly to the woods of his native county ; 

 and often have we enjoyed outings with him iu Edlington, Dunford Bridge, and 

 other woods. He was one of the five founders of the Barnsley Naturalists' Society 

 in 1867, a local Society which is now one of the most flourishing in South Yorkshii-e. 

 He was elected a Fellow of the ICntomological Society of London in 1889.— G. T. P. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society: 

 Thursday, July llth, 1907, Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Waterer, Brocklej, was elected a Member. 



Mr. Rayward exhibited fine bred specimens of Agriades lellargus and Polyom- 

 matut icarus, and commented upon their size and brilliancy in spite of the fact 

 that ants were almost constantly in attendance upon the larvae. Mr. H. Moore, 

 specimens of Euchelia jacohxse from the Dunkirk sand dunes, one of which was 

 exceedingly pale, and a Cricket from Lisbon. Mr. Gibb, the " Simplex " net, frame, 

 and stick. Mr. Sich, cocoons of Cedestis farinatella, a Lepidopteron whose larva 

 lives in the needles of Scotch fir. Mr. Newman, (1) a gynandromorphous specimen 

 of Amorpha populi ; (2) bred series of Melitea aurinia from Kent and Ireland ; 

 (3) a bred series of M. cinxia ; (4) a Smerinthus ocellatus with extreme develop- 



