In Memoriam : H. H. Corhett. 147 



year by that of their only son, who was killed in action. 

 Captain H. Vincent Corbett was a young man of great 

 promise, who had done good work among the Coleoptera and 

 Hemiptera. These were sad blows, which made indelible 

 marks on the Doctor's sensitive and affectionate nature, and 

 since then his life had been bound up with that of his three 

 daughters, to whom our hearts go out in respectful sympathy. 

 Dr. Corbett had not been in Doncaster very long before 

 The Naturalist was furnished with the results of his investi- 

 gations of his new surroundings. His first contribution 

 occupies the opening pages of the volume for 1S91, and gives 

 ' Additions to the Yorkshire List of Lepidoptera for the 

 Doncaster District.' These include three species new to the 

 county. In the volume for 1893 he recorded Lithocolletis 

 cerasicolella H. S., a species new to the British Fauna, in 

 that for 1897 another addition to the Yorkshire List, and one 

 more in that for 1902, and many others in following years, 

 including two in 1920. Interesting varieties in his collection 

 are figured by the late C. G. Barrett in the illustrated edition 

 of ' The Lepidoptera of the British Islands.' These results 

 of keen research would of themselves have been sufficient to 

 give him a high place amongst entomologists, but his interests 

 were by no means confined to Lepidoptera. Soon after he 

 came to Doncaster, a note of mine, which appeared in The 

 Naturalist, caused him to seek my acquaintance, and soon he 

 began to study Coleoptera. In this order he did excellent 

 work, as a cursory glance at the list of Yorkshire species in 

 the Victoria County History will show. In 1906, he reported 

 Broscus cephalotes from his district, and in our last conversa- 

 tion he told me, amongst much more of interest, that the 

 species is still to be found in the same locality. Another 

 interesting find was Carpophilus sex-pustulatus, of which he 

 took a specimen in Sandal Beat Wood just ten years after I 

 had taken one in Edlington Wood. In succeeding years he 

 met with it again, and in February, 1907, I joined him, and^ 

 together with his son, we were fortunate in finding more of 

 this puzzling species. Reference may be made here to an 

 article which appeared in The Naturalist for 1915, on ' Un- 

 desirable Insect Aliens at Doncaster.' To Lepidoptera and 

 Coleoptera he added Hymenoptera, in great measure induced 

 thereto by seeing specimens of Thyreopus cribraritis which I 

 had taken near Wheatley Wood, and gradually he came to 

 know most of the aculeata which occurred in his district. 

 Besides the aculeates he did good work amongst the Chrysididce, 

 TenthredinidcB, and Ichneumonidce. In 19 17 he re -discovered 

 Trigonalys hahni Spin., a fossor which had not been known to 

 occur in the British Isles for seventy years previously, and 

 was an addition to the county list. 



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