410 Mr. R. S. Bag-nail on the 



examples found at Ainsdale, near Southport, in April 1916, 

 which were kindly identified by Brolemann. Since then I 

 have taken examples of the same species in the Forth Area 

 of Scotland, in the counties of Northumberland and Durham, 

 both inland and on the coast, and in other localities, including 

 the Soufh Coast at Swanage. In every case expert examina- 

 tions of the males were made by Mr. and Mrs. Brade-Birks, 

 proving the species to be VerhoefPs littoralis. 



Leach described J. pusillus from Edinburgh and London, 

 and as I have secured material from one of these localities, 

 and no British examples as yet dissected have been found to 

 be referable to pusillus as diagnosed by Verhoeff, one is 

 forced to the conclusion that when he demonstrated that there 

 were two allied species, Verhoeff unfortunately gave the 

 name littoralis to what was in reality Leach's species. I may 

 have the opportunity this winter of going into the question 

 of how far Verhoeff followed previous continental authors as 

 regards B. pusillus ; in any case, a new name must be found 

 for B. pusillus of Verhoeff (non Leach), but as the names 

 loleti, Am Stein (1857) and stuxbergii, Fanzago (1875), are 

 given as synonyms of pusillus by Latzel, and might be 

 referable to either species, I dare not go further in the matter 

 just now. 



Craspedosoma rawlinsii. Leach. 

 Syn. Craspedosoma simile, Verhoeff, non Attems. 



Craspedosoma raivlinsii, Leach, 1814, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xi. 



p. 380 ; 1817, Zool. Misc. iii. p. 36, pi. exxxiv. figs. 1-5. 

 Craspedosoma raulinsii, Saniouelle, 1819, The Entomologist's 



Useful Compendium, p. 114. 

 Craspedosoma rawlinsii, var. simile, Verhoeff, 1891, Berl. Ent. 



Zeitsch. xxxvi. pp. 129-130. 

 Craspedosoma simile, Verhoeff, 1910, Sitzungsher. Ges. Naturf. 



Freimde, no. 1, pp. 19-62, figs. 



Verhoeff first described his simile in 1891 as a variety of 

 rawlinsii, but later raised it to specific rank, and in 1910 

 (reference above cited) he reviewed the genus Craspedosoma 

 (pp. 30-55) and gave the tables of his subdivisions, species, 

 and subspecies. That the species he regards as raivlinsii 

 and simile are well characterized is distinctly demonstrated, 

 but here again I contend that VerhoefPs species should be 

 referred to the species Leach described. 



In 1912 I sent Verhoeff specimens of Craspedosoma from 

 Gibside, County Durham, which he returned as C. simile and 



