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Biisgen has shown that an aphis will discharge this liquid from the cornicles 

 and smear the face and forceps of the larva of the lace-winsr fly, and also the 

 whole fore parts of a lady-bird, when these enemies attack it. The secretion 

 hardens at once and at least temporarily inconveniences and disturbs the foe, 

 causing it to desist from the chase. — IIorack Donisthoupk, 19 llazlewell 

 Road, Putney : Anr/ust I2t/i, 1922. 



Diptera from the Bristol District. — Chironomns rtifipes L., abundant at 

 Ilanham, Som., 15.vii.22 ; also taken a week previously by Mr. II. Audcent. 

 Tipula irrorata Mg. — One cJ ,conlirined by Dr. Go^tghebuer, and distinguished 

 from our other species of marmoiated "Daddies" by distinct bluish wing 

 reflections. Yerrall, in Ent. Mo. Mag. vol. xxiii, p. 121, gives it in lus list of 

 reputed British Ttpulas, referring to " Suites a BufFon, i. 84, Curt., B.E., 493," 

 but omits it from his 1901 list. Ilerewitli it is returned to list. Taken at Blaise 

 Castle, Bristol, Glouc, 27. v. 2. Ilaematopota crassicornis Whlbg. — J, Nailsea, 

 Som.,23.vii.22 ; 9 ,Shapwick, Som., 10.vi.21. New to Somerset list. Oxycera 

 formosa Mg. — Nailsea, Som., 27.Tii.22. Nemotelus notatus Ztt.— J, 12.vii.22, 

 two $ 2 , 17.Tii.22, Shirehampton, Glouc. New to Somerset. Volucella in- 

 flata F.— Dursley, Glouc, 17.Ti.22 ; Blaise, Glouc, 25.Ti.22. Mallota cimbici- 

 formis Fin. — One, Blaise, Glouc, 25.Ti.22. Tropidia scita Ilarr. — Two, 

 Ashcott, Som., 3.vi.22. Xylota lenta Mg.— One, Blaise, Glouc, 25.Ti.22. 

 During June 192] at Burnham, Som., Pktkiria pulicaria Mik was plentiful 

 on the sand-hills, evidently associated with a species of PompiUis. — 

 H. WoMF-nsLKY, 17 DeTonshire Road, Westbury Park, Bristol : July 31si, 1922. 



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David Sharp, M.A., M.B., F.R.S., the doye7i of Britisli Coleopterists, one 

 of the most distinguished Entomologists of our time, and whose name is a 

 household word wherever our Science is pursued, passed away peacefully at 

 his residence, Lawnside, Brockenhurst, on the morning of Sunday, August 27th, 

 and was laid to rest in the beautiful churchyard of that New Forest village on 

 the following Thursday. 



He was born on October 15th, 1840, at Towcester, Northants, and his early 

 years were passed at Stony Stratford, Bucliinghamshire, his parents afterwards 

 removing to St. John's Wood, in the north of London. Here Herbert Spencer 

 was for some considerable time nn inmate of his father's house, and there can 

 be no doubt that the keen and logical quality of Dr. Sharp's mind was in large 

 ineasux'e due to his early association with the eminent philosopher, who gave 

 him much encouragement and assistance in his tirst efforts in the study of 

 Natural History, and of whom he was wont to speak witli respect and affection 

 to the end of his life. 



Not finding his father's bu,siness congenial after a short trial. Sharp 

 decided to enter the profession of medicine, and to that end studied, first at 

 St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and subsequently at Edinburgh, where 

 in 1866 he graduated as M.B. and CM. In 1867 he received an appointment 

 to the Crichton Institution at Dumfries, and some years subsequently he was 

 entrusted with the medical care of a wealthy patient, who died in 1883 ; he 



