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was met with in abundance among Sparganium and other 

 water-plants in September 1897. Widely distributed in 

 Europe, being on record from Norway, Sweden, Finland, 

 Eussia, Germany, England, Ireland, France, and Austria. 



Local data.— Pool on the Braid Hills, Edinburgh, 20th Sept. 1897, 

 abundant, and again on Eth May 1898 ; old marl pit, Davidson's Mains, 

 near Edinburgh, 6th Aug. 1898, common; on surface of stagnant water in 

 old quarry, Longniddry (E. Lothian), 30th Aug. 1898, a few; pond in 

 Edinburgh Botanic Garden, Aug., abundanl". 



Sminthurus csecus, Tullb., var. attenuatus, no v. 

 [Plate VII. Figs. 9-13.] 

 This small blind species occurs sparingly in the old sub- 

 terranean limestone-quarry at Moredun, near Gilmerton, 

 referred to more particularly under Pseudosinella cavernarum. 

 We know of no previous record for Great Britain, but in 

 Ireland the insect has been recorded by Carpenter (3) from 

 the Mitchelstown Cave, Co. Tipperary. Abroad it has been 

 found in or under flower-pots in Norway, Sweden, Finland, 

 Eussia, and Hamburg. Our Moredun examples agree 

 with the type in being dotted over with minute red spots, 

 which are absent in the specimen from the Irish cave, but 

 they seem to differ from the type, as they do markedly from 

 the Mitchelstown specimen, in the form of the mucro, which 

 is straight, slender, and not clubbed (see Fig. 13) : also the 

 fourth antennal segment is longer than the other three 

 to<^ether. Perhaps these structural differences are worthy 

 of more than passing recognition : we therefore propose to 

 designate the form var. attenuatus. 



Local data.— Old limestone quarry or mine on Moredun Mains farm, near 

 Gilmerton (Midlothian), one specimen secured on 12th April, and another on 

 18th April 1899. They were found on the under sides of stones which were 

 slightly embedded in fine earth on the sloping floor of the dark portion of the 

 quarry. 



Genus Papirius, Lubbock. 

 Papirius cursor, Lubb. 



Papirius fuscus, Lubbock's "Monograph." 



With US this species, though not very common, seems to be 

 pretty generally dispersed. Has been recorded from England, 



