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Fab., shuckardi, Mor., Crahro clavipes, Linn., Odynerus melanocephalus, Gmel., tri- 

 fasciatus, Oliv., Halictus pimctatissimus, Schk., minutus, Kirb., Nomada armata, 

 H.-S., Osmia bicolor, Schk., Stelis aterrima^ Panz., phasoptera, Kirb. 



The district must therefore be considered a very good one, as the last three 

 seasons have certainly been poor ones. One S Methoca ichneumonides, Latr., was 

 captured carrying a $ , between two and three o'clock in the afternoon. — Edw. B. 

 Nevinson, 5, Bentinck Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W. : February, 1906. 



Halesus guttatipennis in Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. — To the localities for 

 Halesus guttatipennis enumerated by Mr. K. J. Morton (Ent. Mo. Mag., March, 

 1906, p. 66), I can add Lathkildale, near Bakewell, Derbyshire, from where I have 

 specimens in my series taken by Mr. S. L. Mosley on October 19tb, 1898. I have 

 also a specimen taken by Mr. James Eardley Mason at Alford in Lincolnshire, as 

 ong ago as November 9th, 1889,— G-eo. T. Pobbitt, Huddersfield : March 7th, 

 1906. 



Charles William Dale, F.E.S. — It is with much regret that we announce the 

 death of Mr. Charles William Dale, who passed away at Sherborne, on February 20th 

 last, at the age of 54. Inheriting from his father, the late Mr. James C. Dale 

 (whose name appears repeatedly in his friend John Curtis' " British Entomology "), 

 the love of Natural History in general, and of Entomology in pai-ticular, he followed 

 closely in his footsteps, collecting — almost entirely in their imaginal states —all orders 

 of insects, with which he early became familiar. His opportunities for doing so 

 were exceptionally good, his boyhood and youth being spent at home, and his 

 educational studies making no very severe tax upon his time ; he had also the 

 advantage of the use of his father's fine collections, of which, on the death of the 

 latter, all the British ones passed to him in 1872. When about 30 years of age, 

 Mr. Dale entered Oxford University, but after a short residence, spent chiefly at 

 Wadham College, he returned home to Grlanvilles Wootton Manor House, near 

 Sherborne, where practically his whole life was spent, and around which the family 

 estates lay. 



Many notes from our friend's pen, chiefly on the capture of rare and interesting 

 species, have appeared in the Entomological magazines, the last being only dated 

 " January 13th, 1906," and published in the February number of this periodical, 

 and occasional papers were read by him before the Dorset Field Club, one having 

 been promised for a meeting that was held two days after his death. His most 

 important works were " The History of G-lanvilles Wootton, including its Zoology 

 and Botany" (187tt), "The Lepidoptera of Dorsetshire" (1886), with a Second 

 Edition (1891), and " The History of our British Butterflies," which was issued as 

 a Supplement to " The Young Naturalist." These showed great industry, and 

 include a large number of valuable records, though the fact that they contain 

 a good many erroneous entries must always be a source of regret, and of difficulty, 

 to the specialist. But where such very extensive knowledge is aimed at, depth and 

 accuracy cannot fail to be more or less sacrificed, and we do not remember any 



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