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opportunity of calling attention to this unfortunate error. A comparison 

 of the tiofures of Sctpnnus arcuatus and capitatus shows a remarkable 

 dissimilarity between them. The former is without the tlocculent clothing 

 and is described by Father Perry as white and glistening, but with a sticky 

 secretion to which the waxy matter of the Aleurodes adheres. — Gilbert J. 

 Arrow, 9 Kossdale Rd., Putney, S.W. : Jcai. loth, 1918. 



Trigoyior/euius glohuJum Sol. in London. — Amongst some Ptinids recently 

 sent n\e for determination by Mr. W. West there were several examples of 

 this insect, supposed to be of Chilean origin, but now almost cosmopolitan in 

 its distribution. These were found, with many others, during the present 

 winter, in an old carpenter's shop in Upper Thames St., liOndon, beneath a lot 

 of timber, odd specimens of the insect having been seen crawling about in the 

 same place amongst the wood-shavings on the floor for some time previously. 

 Ptinus tectus occurred with it, and Xipfus hololeucus was very common amongst 

 the ''sweepings." — G. C. Ckampiox, Horsell, Woking: Jem. \6th, 1918. 



Salestts guttat ijyenn is McLachl. and other Trichoptern and Xeiiroptera in 

 Cnmherlnnd. — Among a number of insects of the above Orders recently named 

 for me by Mr. Porritt are two specimens of this very local species, which were 

 taken in September 1912 on the banks of the River Eden in Cumberland. 

 Mr. Porritt tells me that the date is earlv — October and November bein? 

 the time he has himself captured it. Several of the other species which 

 Mr. Porritt has kindly determined appear to be also new to Cumberland, 

 viz.: — Chaetopteryx villosa, R. Eden, Isopten/x torrentlum and Lasiocephalus 

 hasalis, Keswick, Mystacides azurea^ R. Pt^tteril, Sialis fuliyinosa, R. Calde.w, 

 and Ilemei'ohius maryiyiatus, Orton. In addition to these I have, at various 

 times, taken Anaholia nervosa, Leptocerris eojmnutafus, and Osmylus chrysops 

 on the banks of the Petteril, near Carlisle, which I believe will also be new 

 records for the county. — F. H. Day, 26 Currock Terrace, Carlisle : Jan. oth, 

 1918. 



Williayn Henry Haricood died at Sudbury, Suffolk, on Pec, 24th, 1917, 

 after a long illness. He was born at Colchester on Feb. 2oth, 1840, and from 

 a verv early age developed a taste for entomology. Educated at the Colchester 

 Royal Grammar School, he was afterwards apprenticed to Messrs. Smith & 

 Shenstone, Chemists, of Colchester. After completing his indentures, owing to 

 indifierent health, he decided to take up an outdoor occupation, and this 

 resulted in him devoting all his time to entomology. He was one of the first 

 to practise the method of "sleeving" larvae on growing food-plants, and was 

 successful in rearing many species, the earlier stages of which were previously 

 unknovsTi. On this subject he constantly corresponded with Messrs. Buckler, 

 Hellins, and Harpur-Crewe, and his name is frequently mentioned throughout 

 the first-named author's '' Larvae of British Butterflies and Moths," as well as 

 in the current Entomological Magazines. In the early *' eighties " he took up 

 the study of Coleoptera and Hymenoptera-Aculeata, and later on other 

 Orders of British Insects, devoting much attention to species of economic 



