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occurs abuudantly on the neighbouring "towans," and it is just possible that the 

 extraordinarily high temperature and the drought were factors in determining 

 the migration. — C. G. Lamb, University Museum of Zoology, Ciimbridge : 

 March '2nd, 1922. 



So7itc- North JDerhyshire Hymenoptera and Diptera. — To one accustomed 

 to the profuse vegetation of the woodland and hedgerows-efLJWarwickshire, 

 two day- in the mining village of Danesmoor at Whitsuntide 1921, was not 

 very alluring entomologically, as with the slag heaps of Clay Cross Ironworks 

 on one hand, shale dumps of the pit on the other, and the prevailing erratic 

 weather conditions; there were small hopes for collecting in this apparently 

 barren region. Much to my surprise, I was fortunate in taking some interesting 

 specimens during the fitful spells of sunshine, a few at Padley Wood, the 

 remainder beside the Midland Railway line between the village and Clay Cross. 

 I am indebted for nmch kind assistance in the determination of \\\y captures, 

 in the Hymenoptera to the Rev. F. D. Morice, and in the Diptera to the 

 Rev. Alfred Thornle}'. Monophadmis genicuhitus Htg., Fennsa (Kaliosi/spkinf/a) 

 dohrni Tischb., Poecihsoma tridens Knw., DoJerus haematodes Schr., D. picipe's 

 Ki., D. niyratus Miill., D. aeneus Htg., Bhoyogaster auaipariae Kl., Pachyue~ 

 matus clitellatus Lep., P. xa7ithocarpns Iltg., Trichiocamjnis eradiatus Htg., 

 Microcryptus labralis Gr. (taken 1914), Lbnerium yeniculatum Gr., Halidiis 

 rubicimdus Christ., H. atricornis Smith, II. leucopus Kirb., Andrena albicans 

 Kirb., A. cineraria Linn., A. triimnerana Kirb., A. (jwynana Kirb., A. anyustior 

 Kirb., A. similis Smith., A. saunderseJIa Per., Nomada nltcrnata Kirb., N. Jath- 

 buriana Kirb., N. bifida Thorns., N. fahriciana Linn. Phamphomyia spissirostris 

 Fin., iSi/rph?(S tricinctus Fin., Gymnochaeta viridis Flu., Cynomyia morttiornni 

 L., Pollenia rudis Fin., Polietes Inrdaria F., Phaonia {Hyctodesia) errans Mg., 

 Psila fmetariali., Opomyza jiorum F., also a brown lacewing-fly ilf/6vow??fs 

 [lagnnns Linn., and a moth Porfrix palleana Hiibn,, bred from larva taken in 

 1914.— J. W. Sal-NT, 53 Enfield Road, Stoke, Coventry: April I5th, 1922. 



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Vincent Robert Perkins died at his residence in Wotton-under-Edge, 

 Gloucestershire, on April 3rd last, oged 91. He was the eldest son of the 

 Rev. B. R. Perkins, v,-ho ibr fifty years was Yicar of the parish, and also 

 Headmaster of the Grammar School. 



As young men, he and his younger brother were entlnisiastic collectors of 

 Lepidoptera in the early days of the " Entomologists' Annunl " and the 

 " Weekly Intelligencer," their father's beautiful garden and the hills and 

 woods around tha town providing delightful and profitable collecting grounds. 

 Vincent, after a short time spent in London, was for a while in the Bank of 

 England at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he made the acquaintance of Bold and 

 other collectors in the North, but by far the greater part of his life was spent 

 at Wotton. In the " seventies " of last century, when resident for some years in 

 London, he was a frequent attendant at meetings of Scientific Societies, but 

 subsequently he lived in the hoixse wliich had formerly belonged to his father 

 the Vicar. 



