338 Miscellaneous. 
IT. Segmenta ventralia margine laterali membranacea, mobilia. Scrobiculi 
femorales prothoracis foris aperti. Mesosternum apice acutum. Oculi 
exsertl. 
Campylus, Fisch. 
Elytra prothoraci superposita. Hpimera mesothoracica coxas at- 
tingentia. Oculi exserti, granulati. rons laminata. Sulei anten- 
narii nulli. Prosterni processus in mucronem saltatorium sensim 
transiens. Cove postice lamina femorali angustissima. L/ytra costa 
marginali integra, planiuscula, recta, post coxas posticas non inflecta. 
Segmentum quintum abdominis in femina post rotundatum, in 
mare truncatum, medio productum, segmentum sextum haud ob- 
tegens. 
(1. C. linearis, L., fr.; 2. C. denticollis, Fabr., r.) 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Scheuchzeria palustris, Linn. 
To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural Mistory. 
GENTLEMEN,—With great pleasure I am enabled to record that 
the Rev. O. M. Fielden, incumbent of Welsh Frankton, Shropshire, 
has this summer (1866) detected this rare plant growing in Welsh 
Hampton Moss, Shropshire, and thus has added a second Shropshire 
locality, and a fifth British one. Only three specimens were found, 
one of which is now before me. 
I am, Gentlemen, yours, &c. 
W. A. LEIGHTON. 
Shrewsbury, Sept. 24, 1866. 
On the Long-eared or Mule Deer of North America (Kucervus). 
By Dr. Joun Epwarp Gray, F.R.S., &e. 
The Long-eared or Mule Deer of the Western States of North 
America are very imperfectly known in Europe; and the examina- 
tion of the horns, which I had not before seen, has shown me that 
they have been very erroneously placed with the genus Cariacus. 
Dr. Spencer Baird, in his excellent work on the Mammals of North 
America, has formed for them a distinct section of his genus Cervus. 
The Cariaci or Savanna Deer have the upper part of the beam 
of the horns curved forward, with the upper branches arising from 
its hinder edge ; they generally have a single subbasal snag some 
distance from the base; and the outside of the metatarsus has a 
short broad gland. The skull is elongate, narrow, and the subor- 
bital pit is small. The Mule Deer, on the contrary, have a doubly 
forked suberect horn, like the genera Blastocerus and Furcifer of 
South and tropical America. They differ from both these genera in 
having a large elongated gland on the outside of the metatarsus, 
rather differently formed horns, and a broad short skull. 
To this group I propose to give the generic name of Eucrrvus. 
