410 Mr. E. S. Bngiiall on the 



examples found at Aiiisdale, near Soutliport, in April lOKi, 

 \vliich were kindly identifii'd by Broleniann. Since then 1 

 liave taken cxani])les of tiie 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 South Coast at Swanage. In every case expert examina- 

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

 proving; the species to be Verhoeff's Uitoralis. 



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 jiusillus as diagnosed by Verhoeff, one is 

 forced to the conclusion that when he demonstrated that there 

 were two allied species, Yerhoeff unfortunattdy 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 Yerhoeff followed previous continental authors as 

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

 for B. pufiillus of Yerhoeff (non Leach), but as the names 

 loleti, Am Sttin (1857) and stu.vbergii, Fanzago (1875), are 

 given as sjnonyms of pusil/us by Latzel. and might be 

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

 just now. 



Craspedosoma rawVinsii, Leach. 



Syn. Craspedosoma simile, Verhoeff, non Attems. 



Craspedosomu .rcnch'nsii, Leach, 1814, Tr.ans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xi. 



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

 Craspedosoma ranlinsii, Samouelle, 1819, The Entomologist's 



Useful Compendium, p. 114. 

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



Zeitsch. xxxvi. pp. 129-130. 

 Crasp>edosoma simile, VerhoefF, 1910, Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturf. 



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



Yerhoeff 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 rawlinsii 

 and simile are well characterized is distinctly demonstrated, 

 but heie again I contend that Yerhoefi^s species should be 

 referred to tlie species Leach described. 



In 1912 I sent Verhoeff specimens of Craspedosoma from 

 Gibside, (bounty Durham, which he returned as C. simile and 



