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all have the peculiarities of true niveata. As niveata has occui'red near Reading, 

 there is no reason for considering it a maritime form. On one occasion tiuring 

 my stay at Margate I went over to Walmer to see Mr. F. W. L. Sladen, and there 

 again we found it, but rarely, on the same plant. I expect it only wants looking for 

 to be found freely in many places. Curiously enough it was the only Aculeate worth 

 noticing that I found during a fortnight's visit. — Edward Saunders, St. Ann's, 

 Woking : June bth, 1904. 



Andrennferox, Smitli, ? at Hunting field, Kent. — I liave to correct an error 

 in the determination of this insect, which I recorded by mistake as taken on May 

 22nd, 1902 (see Ent. Mo. Mag., xxsviii, p. 182). Mr. Saunders kindly pointed out 

 to me last autumn that the ^ insect in my collection under that name was only 

 angustior. The matter being not very important as I had taken the $ , I decided 

 to wait until tlie 9 turned up before correcfing the mistake, and I now record it as 

 taken at the same locality on May 25th and 2f)th this year. Mr. Morice came to spend 

 a few days with me to take it, and we had not been on the ground for more than a 

 few minutes before he netted a specimen, and the following day at precisely the same 

 spot and within a few minutes of the same hour (about 11 o'clock) I caught a 

 second specimen. After that we decided to give the insect a rest in the hope of next 

 year taking the ? , which was evidently over. These ? $ wei-e taken not ten yards 

 away fi'om where the 3 occurred in 1902. I think they were captured within a 

 few feet of their burrows. My specimen was devoid of pollen, and Mr. Morice's 

 had very little attached to it, whereas, two Andrena humilis ? ? taken earlier 

 in the day were laden. Neither days were really sunny though very warm, and 

 curiously I have been able to get very few suitable days for this bee during the last 

 three years at the time when it was about. The bee must however, I think, 

 be an indifferent worker, and only flies for a short time in the day. The spot is on 

 a steep hill side facing S.E. near the bottom, where a hedge separates it from a hop 

 field ; it gets all the morning sun. Both specimens were taken flying over the 

 ground. There were a very few hawthorn blossoms on the hedge, up and down 

 which A. nigroeenea and d. wiUcella were flying in some numbers. The ground 

 flowers comprised daisies, buttercups, and I think dandelions and a hawkweed, 

 probably it was visiting these and not the hawthorn. I hope to ascertain more 

 about its habits next year. — A. J. Chitty, Huntingfield, Faversham, Kent: 

 June IZth, 1904. 



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E. G. J. Sparke, B.A., F.E.S. — The sudden death at Tooting during the 

 night of 2nd — 3rd of May of this Suffolk Entomologist, is the third loss to the 

 science the County has suffered during the past year. Few men are better 

 acquainted with the Lepidoptera of Suffolk than was Mr. Sparke, and none knew 

 the fauna of the Breck District, and especially of Tuddenhara Fen, where his uncle 

 was for a great number of years Rector, so well. Five days before his death he had 

 been collecting at Henley Hall, near Ipswich ; and the writer has the liveliest 

 recollection of his unfailing unselfishness and good fellowship in the field. " A 

 man's good name is his best monument." — Claude Moriey. 



