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THE BRITISH NATURALIST. 



[August 



Bollin Valley, Eccles and Lindow, J.R.H.; and at Rock Ferry, 

 J.T.G. 



minutula, Kirb. (2nd brood). — parvida, Kirb. (ist brood). — Crosby 



and Rainhill both near Liverpool, H.H.H. 

 nana, Kirb. — Bowden and Hazelgrove, B.C. 



Wilkella, Kirb. — xantluiva, Kirb. — Bowden and Hazelgrove, B.C. 



MACROPIS, Panz. 



The only Britisli species of this genus is very rare, and has not 

 been recorded in our district. 



DASYPODA. 



Our single British species burrows in large colonies in sandhills, 

 generally choosing a bank overgrown with herbage with a southern 

 aspect. 



hirtipes, Latr. — ^Sale and Bollin valley, J.R.H.; Wallasey sand- 

 hills, W.G.; and Cheshire Coast, B.C. 



^ CILISSA, Leach. 



This genus contains only two species occurring in Great Britain; 

 their habits are probably the same as the gregarious members of the 

 genus Andrena. They have not, so far, been recorded in our district. 



PANURGUS, Panz. " 



Our two British species burrow in hard trodden pathways. They 

 have not, hitherto, been observed m our district, though fairly 

 distributed throughout the country. 



(To be continued ) . 



NATURALISTS OF THE DAY. 



VII.— GEORGE TAYLOR PORRITT, 



F.L.S., F.E.S., ETC. 



The gentlemen whose portrait we present with this number is a 

 worthy successor to that band of Northern Entomologists who made 

 Yorkshire and Lancashire famous half a century ago. While he has 

 kept up the reputation of the Yorkshire naturalists, he has also 

 extended his sphere of action, and is as well knowm in towm as in the 

 provinces. 



Mr. Porritt was horn at Huddersfield in the year ;md took so 



early an interest in matters entomological tliat he was niade a Fellow 

 of the Entomological Society of London when c-nly 22 years of age, 

 and two years after he was elected to Fellowship in th« Linnsean 



