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Tenipe, Arizoua, March 30tli, 1902, and also sent a J witli cast nvniplial skin 

 labelled Las Veyas, New Mex., Oct. 1901. In New York Slate, NeodLain 

 says '' this species flies only in late summer and autumn (in early sprinfj;- I 

 have twice found a specimen that I suppose had hibernated), but in the south- 

 west it flies throughout the greater part of the season." May it not be sng- 

 gesteJ that the presence of the species in spring in New York State was due 

 to immigration rather than hibernation ? 



At Ruislip I had also the pleasure of taking a fine cf of Aeschna mixta ; 

 one or two others were seen and a good many pairs of Sijmpetntm striolatum 

 were present. Ae, mix-ta was, I believe, seen on September 30th between 

 Chertsey and Weybridge. On October 2nd, at Burnham I'eeches, two tine 

 T^iCwa oi Ae. cyanea were taken at the ponds there, at which the only other 

 dragontlies seen were S. striulatum. At a pond near Burnham Beeches Station 

 in the afternoon of the same day Ae. mixta was again found, and the Si/n,pe- 

 tnitn just named was very abundant. — Kenneth J. Mouton, 13 Blackford 

 Eoad, Edinburgh : Octobe}- 1922. 



Thomas George Bishop^ as announced in our October No. {antca p. 237), 

 died at his residence, Dalmore, Helensburgh, after a short illness, on 2()th 

 August last. He was born at Carlisle on August 11th, IS-iO, but lefl there \v liiie 

 still a boy for Glasgow, where, except for a short term of residence at Ltwis- 

 ham, near London, he spent his business life. It was probably during his 

 boyish days in Glasgow that he first began to take an interest in natuial 

 history and particularly in Entomology, for there is still in existence a Jouruai 

 compiled by him when only 14 years of age, in which, in addition to volu- 

 minous notes upon birds and birds' eggs, there is evidence that even at that 

 early age his attention was turned towards the Coleoptera, of which in later 

 years he became an enthusiastic collector and student. 



While yet in his teens he appears to have become acc[uainted with the 

 late Dr. David Sharp, who at that time was resident in Edinbuigh, and 

 the friendship then begun, founded as it was upon their mutual interest in 

 Coleoptera, endured during their lifetime. In the autumn of 1864 thev paid a 

 joint visit to Rannoch, then almost terra incognita to the Coleopterist, and the 

 result of that visit was chronicled in the "Entomologist's Annual " for 1865, 

 pp. 41, 42, as the addition of four species to the British list, one of them, 

 Ayathidiuin rhinuceros Shp., being new to science. During this period 

 Mr. Bishop also collected Coleoptera in the neighbourhood of Glasgow, and 

 the writer can well remember tiie pleasure with which he related his eaily 

 collecting experiences in such i,vell-knowu Glasgow localities as TuUcross 

 sand-pits, Fossil Marsh, and Cadder Wilderness. A good deal of his Gh.sguw 

 collecting was done along with the Rev. J. E. Sonierville, who statts that 

 during their entomological excursions to Possil Marsh, Mr. Bishop was alto 

 much interested in the birds of the Marsh and had great skill in finding their 

 neats. He was a member and for some time acted as Secrefary of the Glas>^ow 



