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infonns me that lie has a specimen fomiJ hj Mr. Ernest Elliott at 

 Mundesley, which is in the same neighbourhood. Mr. Elliman has 

 been good enough to allow me to examine his long series, and there 

 can be no doubt as to the validity of the species. 



(4) B. FTJSciPES, Eye. 

 Bledius fuscipes, Rye, Ent. Mo. Mag., Dec, 1865, p. 154. 

 Bargus rastellus, Schiodte, Naturhist. Tidskr., 1866, p. 149. 



I am indebted to the Copenhagen Museum for the opportunity of 

 examining a series of Schiodte's Bargus rastellus. They are exactly 

 the same as the original examples of B. fuscipes captured by Mr. Eye 

 and myself in June, 1865, on the Firth of Forth, near Edinburgh. 

 In the Catalogus Col. Europse fuscipes. Eye, is placed as a synonym 

 of pallipes, while rastellus, Schiodte, figures as a synonym of suhter- 

 raneus 1 I am unable to guess at any explanation for these gross 

 errors. 



B. fuscipes is a very local species, which has occurred only on the 

 estuaries of our rivers, the Firths of Moray and Forth, and the 

 rivers Mersey and Tor. These localities are very widely separated, and 

 it is not therefore a matter for surprise that the specimens exhibit 

 slight variations, so that as a result a series from one locality does not 

 quite agree with a set from another place. 



The original examples of fuscipes from Edinburgh are a rather 

 larger and stouter form, with slightly more ample thorax, and the legs 

 brownish-yellow, but not fuscous, as the name implies. These speci- 

 mens agi*ee exactly with Danish B. rastellus, and there is no doubt 

 that the two names are absolute synonyms. 



A long series of abovit 100 examples taken by Mr. Bishop and 

 myself at Forres, in June, 1910, are rather smaller, and darker in 

 colour, the legs being sometimes nearly black, and they have the thorax 

 rather shorter. The numerous individuals from the Mersey district 

 differ but little from the Forres specimens. In a long series taken by 

 Mr. De la Garde at Braunton in Devonshire the form is slightly less 

 robust, the size a little less, and the legs somewhat paler. None of 

 the slight distinctions in any of these series is constant, and I have 

 quite failed to find any character of greater importance. 



(5) B. TEREBRANS, Sclliodte. 



Bargus terebrans, Schiodte, Natiu'hist. Tidskr., 1866, p. 149. 



On April 23rd, 1866, I found at Harburn, near Carstairs, a single 

 specimen of a Bledius that I was vmable to determine, and that has 



