NEW BRITISH SPECIES, ETC., IN 1873. 81 



legs, and sometimes the 7th stria merely indicated by a 

 few punctures, must be left to the judgment of the reader. 



7. AcTOCHARis Readingii, Sharp (1st May, 1870) ; Ent. 

 Ann. 1872, p. 142, 1873, p. 15; E. C. Rye, Ent. Mo. 

 Mag., X, p. 138. 



Vol. V. of the 2nd series of the Bulletin de la Societe 

 Linneenne de Normandie, which, at p. 19, contains the first 

 publication of Actocharis marina^ for which M. A. Fauvel 

 claims priority, is at last accessible. It is stated to be for 

 " Annee 1869 — 70," and bears on its inner title the date 1870, 

 and on its wrapper the date 1871. For reasons before given 

 by me, I do not believe this volume was actually published 

 at the very earliest before the end of 1871 (it had not come 

 to hand at the end of 1872). In it, in an account of the 

 proceedings at the meeting of the Society of 8th Nov., 1869, 

 are (pp. 17—21) the descriptions of Actochai^is marina and 

 some other species, for which, in the livraison of the same 

 author's " Faune Gallo-Rhenaue," forming a part of the 

 identical volume, priority is claimed as from the last-men- 

 tioned date, and not from the actual date of publication, the 

 author apparently considering that tlie act of reading a paper 

 privately to the members of his society is a publication to 

 the world. The Bulletin is (or should be) pubhshed annually, 

 according to Art. 20 of the Society's Rules. See Bull. Soc. L. 

 Norm. (2) iv, p. 12. The following remarks by de Marseul 

 (" Nouvelles et Faits divers," 3rd ser., No. 2, p. 8) may 

 throw some light on the question of dates : — " Simple ques- 

 tion a M. Fauvel: — La Societe linneenne de Caen ne publie- 

 t-elle pas de Bulletin depuis deux ans?" 



There can, of course, be not the shadow of a doubt that 

 Dr. Sharp's publication is at least two years anterior in date 

 to M. Fauvel's ; and it is equally certain that my Calodera 



1874. G 



