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X maritima, Tullb., a number of specimens having been 

 found by Evans at Eaitb, near Kirkcaldy, on 4th June 1901, 

 under bark on a felled " plane " tree. This habitat shows 

 that the species is, as has been remarked by Schaffer (1896), 

 by no means exclusively a marine one. X. maritima may 

 be distinguished from X. humicola by the fusion of the mucro 

 with the dens of the spring. This insect was recorded by 

 Brook (1884) from Jersey — which geographically belongs to 

 France — and Carpenter has found it in rock-pools on the 

 coast of Ireland ^ (Co. Wicklow), but it has not till now been 

 recorded from Great Britain. 



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Schwedens, Stettin Entoin. Zeit., 1903, pp. 113-17G, 



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Linn. Sac. (Zool.), vol. xvii., 1884, pp. 19-25, pi i. 

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1 We take this opportunity of suggesting that the term "British," now 

 applied by some writers so as to include, by others so as to exclude, Ireland, 

 might conveniently be restricted to the latter meaning, and some other term 

 — "Britannic" for example— be used when all the British Islands are 

 included. But the inclusion of the Channel Islands as Britannic is quite 

 indefensible from a geographical standpoint. 



