SPECIMENS IN OUR COLLECTION. 



Florida, . E. Pleas, G. C. Fisher, ( 4 collections,! Mrs. M. A. Noble (?)' 

 Tennessee, Mrs. M. S. Percival : Kentucky, C. G. Lloyd: Xew Jersey, T. J. Collins- 

 Rare and Doubtful Species. 



POLYSTICTUS OBESUS. A thick, obese species with general color and 

 characters of Polystictus perennis. It is not zonate, however, and the surface is 

 uneven, with erect, squamose, scales. It is a rare form and I think the type is 

 the only one surely known. I have a specimen from John Dearness, Canada, that 

 I think belongs here though Ellis referred it to P. cinnamomeus which it surely 

 is not. Morgan referred it to P. Montagnei (likewise surely not) and it is the 

 basis of the record of this species in Morgan's work. I have also two collections, 

 one from Theodate L. Smith, New Hampshire and the other from Dr. Mary S. 

 Whetstone, Minneapolis, which I doubtfully refer here. If so, they are young, 

 thinner, and with larger pores. 



Fig. 205. 

 Polystictus culicularis, wilh an enlargement x 6 showing the relative thinness of the fleh. 



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