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insect, the place tliey liad selected beiug about eight yards from an upright 

 steam-pipe ; here, amongst bits of bread, scraps of bacon, tea-leaves, and abun- 

 dance of grains of sugar, I captured 22 specimens, subsequently bringing the 

 total to over 100 living and 12 dead ones. I also found tlie pupa-cases, which 

 are of a papery texture. 



Dermestcs vulpinus F. — Eleven males and three females, taken on various 

 occasions. The cast slcins of the larva are frequently found. The dates of 

 capture are as follows : one specimen, 9.iii.l91S, another, 20.V.1918, the 

 remainder, January and February, 1919. 



Attayenus pellio L. — One specimen found creeping on a wall, March 8th, 

 1918. - W. Potter, -5 Buller St., Droylsden, Manchester: March I2th, 1919. 



]S\/fes on Derbidae in the British Museum Collection, II : a correction. — In 

 the " Entomologists' Monthly Magazine" for November 1918, on page 243, 

 line 6, the following corrections should be made : for "The genera Kermesia 

 Dist., Alara Uist., Inxioala Dist.," read " The genera Kermesia Melieh., Phaco- 

 neura Kiik., In.vwala Dist." This group also includes Paranisia Mats, and 

 Uponisia Mats. — F. Muir, Honolulu, T.H. : Jamiary 22nd, 1919. 



llihernating Andrenas. — On October 20th, 1918, I dug out of a sandy 

 bank at Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, where Andrena clarkellu burrows 

 had been observed in the spring, a number of both sexes of that insect. 

 Again, on October 23rd, at Peckleton, in the same county, I unearthed more 

 of the same species. On October 31st, at the Outwoods, Atherstone, Warwick- 

 shire, I dug up numerous examples of Andre^ia cinf/ulata, both J and $ . In 

 all cases the bees were in perfect condition, contained in the larval cells, and 

 there was no trace of larvae. Since F. Smith states that Andre7ias pass the 

 winter in the larval state, it would be interesting to know to what extent he 

 is incorrect. Saunders gives instances of Andreiia cineraria, A. fulva, and 

 A. niijroaenea having been dug up in December, and the spring species might 

 be expected to mature early ; but A. ciwjulata is a midsummer insect, and it 

 seems remarkable that it should reach maturity in the autumn of the year 

 previous to emergence. — L. A. Box, 80 Xorthampton lioad, Croydon : 

 March ith, 1919. 



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Frederick DuCane Godman, D.C.L., F.R.S., etc., third son of Joseph 

 Godman of Park Hatch, Godalming, Surrey, died on February 19th at his 

 London residence, 45 Pont Street, S.W., in his 86th year, and was buried at 

 Oowfold, not far from his Sussex home at South Lodge, Lower Deeding, on 

 February 24th. Long accounts of his life and untiring activity as a Traveller, 

 Field Naturalist, Ornithologist, Entomologist, Sportsman, etc., have been pub- 

 lished in the Jubilee Supplement to the "Ibis" (1908, pp. 81-92), and in the 

 Introductory Volume of the "Biologia Centrali-Americana " (1915), to which, 

 in this necessarih'^ restricted notice, we are able'to add some particulars as to 

 his entomological work. He was born at Park Hatch on January loth, 1834, 

 and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where, in 1853, he made 

 the acquaintance of the two brothers Newton and of Osbert Salvin, all three of 



