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oblong groups," are rather ambiguous, his figure ("Monograph," 

 plate Ivi. fig. 26) distinctly shows fourteen elements. In 

 1869, a year after Lubbock's notes in Transactions of the 

 Linnean Society, Tullberg named the form with fourteen 

 prominences, which appears to be the usual one both in 

 Europe and America, L. inermis. Most of our specimens 

 have fourteen to sixteen prominences in the post-antennal 

 organ ; a few, however, have only ten to twelve, and one 

 has but nine, as shown in our figure. Japanese examples 

 examined by Folsom had all eight or nine elements. 



The species is widely distributed abroad — Scandinavia 

 and Finland to Bohemia and Italy; also North America, 

 Japan, and Sumatra. 



Local data. — Common under flower-pots in greenhouses, etc., in several 

 gardens in the Morningside district of Edinburgh, Dec. 1898 and Jan. 1899 ; 

 Moredun limestone quarry, April, one. 



Genus Anurida, Laboulbfene. 



Anurida maritima (Guer.), Laboulb. 



Lipura maritiina, Lubbock's "Monograph." 



This interesting species is at times common on the surface 

 of rock pools on the coast of East Lothian. Lubbock received 

 it from Ireland (where it occurs on the east, south, and west 

 coasts), and believed he had seen it at St Andrews. Only 

 recorded from the shores of Scandinavia, the British Isles, 

 Heligoland, France, and North America. 



Local data.— Common in rock pools at Aberlady in Aug. 1896, and at 

 North Berwick in Aug. 1897; St Andrews, Fife (Lubbock). 



Anurida granaria (Nic). 



Anoura granaria, Lubbock's "Monograph." 



We have not found this distinct species often, but it is 

 evidently not uncommon locally. It inhabits the same 

 kinds of places as the Lipmw, to which it bears a strong 

 superficial resemblance. Lubbock records it from England, 

 and its range throughout Europe is extensive — Scandinavia 

 and Finland to the Tyrol ; Ireland and France to Bohemia. 

 It has also been found in Franz Josef Land and Siberia. 



