338 Miscellaneous, 



II. Segtnenta ventralia margine lateral! membranacea, mobilia. Scrobiculi 

 feraorales prothoracis foris aperti. Mesosternum apice acutum. Ocxili 

 exserti. 



Campijlus, Fisch. 



Elytra prothoraci superposita. Epimera mesothoracica coxas at- 

 tingentia. Oculi exserti, granulati. Frons laminata. Sulci anten- 

 narii nuUi. Prosterni processus in iiiucronem saltatorium sensim 

 transiens. Coxce posticae lamina femorali angustissima. Elytra costa 

 marginali integra, planiuscula, recta, post coxas posticas non inflecta. 

 Segmentum quiutum abdominis in femina post rotundatum, iu 

 mare truncatura, medio productum> segmentum sextum baud ob- 

 tegens. 



(I.e. linearis, L., fr. ; 2. C. denticollis, Fabr., r.) 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Scheuchseria palustris, Linn. 



To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



Gentlemen, — With great pleasure I am enabled to record that 

 the Rev. O. M. Fielden, incumbent of Welsh Frankton, Shropshire, 

 has this summer (1866) detected this rare plant growing in Welsh 

 Hampton Moss, Shropshire, and thus has added a second Shropshire 

 locality, and a fifth British one. Only three specimens were found, 

 one of which is now before me. 



I am. Gentlemen, yours, &c. 



W. A. Leighton. 

 Shrewsbury, Sept. 24, 1866. 



On the Long-eared or Mule Deer of North America (Eucervus). 

 By Dr. John Edward Gray, F.R.S., &c. 



The Long-eared or Mule Deer of the Western States of North 

 America are very imperfectly known in Europe ; and the examina- 

 tion of the horns, which 1 had not before seen, has shown me that 

 they have been very erroneously placed with the genus Cariacus. 

 Dr. Spencer Baird, in his excellent work on the Mammals of North 

 America, has formed for them a distinct section of his genus Cervus. 



The Cariaci or Savanna Deer have the upper part of the beam 

 of the horns curved forward, with the upper branches arising from 

 its hinder edge ; they generally have a single subbasal snag some 

 distance from the base ; and the outside of the metatarsus has a 

 short broad gland. The skull is elongate, narrow, and the subor- 

 bital pit is small. The Mule Deer, on the contrary, have a doubly 

 forked suberect horn, like the genera Blastocerus and Furcifer of 

 South and tropical America. They differ from both these genera in 

 having a large elongated gland on the outside of the metatarsus, 

 rather differently formed horns, and a broad short skull. 



To this group I propose to give the generic name of Eucervus. 



