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at the same time Mr Bagnall's and my own additional 

 records. 



For some time past I have adopted the Watsonian 

 scheme of counties and vice-counties for the grouping of 

 records. When, as in the present instance, the great 

 majority of these have already been published in detail, the 

 tabular form of presenting the ascertained distribution has 

 manifest advantages, and it is consequently here employed. 

 In the table three exotic species, which have only occurred 

 in greenhouses, etc., are placed within square brackets ; 

 while the doubtful LitJiobiiis borealis may possibly have been 

 L. lapidicola, Meinart. As regards the nomenclature, I 

 would have been glad to see a less luxuriant crop of new 

 generic names {^e.g., the seven species I previously recorded 

 under the generic name hilus, now require six genera for 

 their accommodation) ; but that is a sign of the times, and I 

 fear there is no escape from it. In the case of the specific 

 names, however, there are, fortunately, few changes to make 

 on my original list, when certain "priority" claims, alluded to 

 below, have been taken into account. There has just been 

 published, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History 

 (ser. 9, vol. iii., p. 253, March 1919), a paper on Myriapoda by 

 Dr Hilda and the Rev. Graham Brade-Birks, entitled," Some 

 Observations on Nomenclature," in which, after having 

 examined "classical" specimens in the British Museum, they 

 advocate the restoration of a number of Leach's and Newport's 

 names to their place of priority. This, I need hardly say, 

 is a source of satisfaction to me, seeing that, following the 

 lead given by Mr Pocock, these names were almost without 

 exception adopted in my 1907 paper, the foreign synonyms 

 being at same time indicated. An examination, however, of 

 the old specimens preserved in the British Museum was, as I 

 pointed out, the obvious way to remove any dubiety there 

 might be concerning the status of these names, and I am 

 glad that this has now been made by thoroughly competent 

 students of the group. 



Records subsequent to the publication, in 1907, of my 

 account of the Myriapods of the Forth Area are contained 

 in the following papers : 



