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was first broiiglit forward as British in the pages of this Journal in 1899 by 

 the late Edward Saunders, who gave a description of the male from one of 

 three examples talien at Aberfoyle in Perthshire by Mr. W, Evans. The 

 female was described from a continental specimen. Subsequently, Mr. Evans 

 recorded the capture of a female near Aberfoyle ; and Mr. J. R. Malloch that 

 of a specimen of each sex in Murroch (jllen, Dumbartonshire (190;j), Dr. R. 0. 

 li. Perkins has very kindly examined individuals of each sex from Adel, and 

 agrees that the bee is correctly named. .He has pointed out the desirability of 

 searching for the small Cuckoo bee {Nomada ohscura Zett.), which is the usual 

 associate of this Andrena in N. \V. Europe, and, accordingly, I have made a 

 number of visits to the colony, so far without success. The weather has, 

 however, been unfavourable, and there are still a few weeks remaining during 

 which the Nomada might occur this season. A Nomada was taken in tha 

 act of entering a rujicrus burrow, but it proved to be a small individual of 

 N leucophthalma (= borealis), the inquiline bee attached to Andrena clarkella* 

 The burrows of A. ruficrtis at Adel are, for the most part, mixed with those of 

 Andrena clarkella K., and are to be found around the margin and in the 

 earthen embankment of an old disused reservoir, the bed of which is now a 

 swampy forest of the Grey Sallow, Sulix cinerea L. Mixed swariis of the 

 males of both species were first seen about March l(ith ; on March 20th 

 females also of both were abundant, many of them laden with pollen from 

 the sallows. Up to March 26tli the number of the new burrows rapidly 

 increased, but after that date the weather became bad, and it was only possible 

 to obtain specimens of rujicrus by digging them out. For the benefit of those 

 who wish to look out for this bee, but liave not seen specimens, it seems well 

 to mention that the female has a strong (superficial) resemblance to a female 

 of the common Halictus rubicwuhts which has lost its white fasciae. Curiously 

 enough, in digging out rujicrus the trowel constantly brought up this Halictus 

 mixed with the Andrena. Was the Halictus (whicli had not yet appeared on 

 the wing) hibernating in the ruficrus burrows ; or were the ruficrits females 

 making use of the old galleries of the Halictus, either for temporary shelter 

 or for nesting? 1 have a single female of ruficrus (only lately identified) 

 which w^as obtained on April 28th, 1915, whilst digging out a populous 

 colony of the Halictus half a mile from this Adel locality. — A. E. Bkadley, 

 8 Shaftsbury Avenue, Roundhay, Leeds: April IQth, 1920. 



The Hev. Henry Stephen Gorham was the youngest son of the Rev. G. C. 

 Gorham vicar of Brampford Speke, a well-known divine and antiquary of his 

 time and party to the famous lawsuit against the then Bishop of Exeter wliich 

 occupied the attention of the Court of Arches at intervals for upwards of 

 four years. The case arose out of the Bishop's refusal to institute the 

 Rev. G. C. Gorham to his living on the score of heterodoxy. 



H. S. Gorham, who was born in 1839, was educated at Rugby under 

 Arnold, and for ten years subsequently followed the profession of civil engineer 

 in London. He then studied for the Church at Lichfield Theological College, 



