Rey. M. J. Berkeley on British Fungi. 355 
faintly marked, and the interstices are flat and covered with ex- 
tremely minute punctures and a delicate pubescence—this, however, 
is very indistinct. The under parts of the insect are black ; the legs, 
palpi, and three basal joints of the antenne are red; the remaining 
joints of the antennz are brownish. 
I have named this species after my friend the Secretary of the 
Entomological Society. 
Genus GEoBIUS. 
Sp. 1. Geobius pubescens, Dejean, Syst. Général des Coléoptéres, 
tom. v. p. 606. Supplément. 
Three specimens of this insect were brought by Mr. Darwin from 
Maldonado, La Plata. 
Dejean states that in all the specimens examined by him, the an- 
terior tarsi are simple : as the three specimens above-mentioned also 
have the anterior tarsi simple, it would appear that the sexes do not 
differ in this respect. 
[To be continued. } 
XLIII.—WNotices of British Fungi. By the Rev. M. J. 
BerKELEY, M.A., F.L.S. 
[ With Five Plates. ] 
[Continued from Annals, vol. i. p. 264.] 
138. Agaricus Mappa, Willd., Fr. Epicr. p. 6. Hitherto 
confounded with 4. Phalloides, from which it is distinguished 
by its less developed volva, which instead of being cup-shaped, 
is little more than a mere rim fringing the bulb. The figures of 
Sowerby and Curtis quoted in Eng. Fl. under A. Phalloides, 
belong to this species. 
*139. A. Maria, Kl. in Linn. Since the discovery of this 
species by Klotzsch at Glasgow, it has been found by Mr. 
Henderson at Milton, Norths., and Mr. C. Babington at Bree- 
don, Leic. I have no doubt that it is the plant figured under 
the name of A. asper in Abbildungen der Schwamme, t. 21. 
(consequently Amanita aspera, Pers. Syn.), and by Kromb- 
holz, t. 29. fig. 18—21; but it is not apparently the plant of 
Fries, who does not quote Krombholz’s figure in his ‘ Epicrisis,’ 
though most of his figures are cited; and certainly not the 
plant of Bolton or Vittadini, which is the species described in 
the ‘English Flora, and which Fries I believe has in view, who 
refers to their figures in his ‘ Epicrisis.’ It is most probable that 
Letellier’s observations (Ann. des Sc. Nat. n. s. vol. iii. p. 87.) 
on A. asper apply to A. Marie, which is far better arranged 
in Lepiota than Amanita. Fries, indeed, who refers the species 
to A. acute-sguamosus, Weinm., has done so, and quotes A. 
asper of Ficinus as a synonym. 
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