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mon, a Myllcena which I could not satisfactorily refer to any 

 of our recorded species, and which Mr. Matthews, so distin- 

 guished an authority on this genus, also failed to identify. 

 Hoping to be able to name it after that gentleman, I sent it 

 for examination to M. A. Fauvel, who returned it as M. 

 glauca, Aube, a species which he has recently identified vvith 

 the M. elongata of Dr. Kraatz (to whom I have sent my in- 

 sect for corroboration). 



Subsequently to this determination. Dr. Sharp has ob- 

 served to me that the M, e/o/?5«^« of Matthews is specifically 

 distinct from Kraatz's subsequently described insect of the 

 same name; remarking that the former is common in Scot- 

 land, running in muddy places on the banks of rivers and 

 streams, whilst the latter occurs very rarely in England and 

 Scotland in Sphagnum (Wimbledon and Rannoch). 



My insect may be distinguished from M. elongata, Mat- 

 thews, by its smaller size and darker colour, the palpi and 

 legs especially being nearly black. 



In De Marseul's Catalogue, glauctty Aube, is erroneously 

 identified with elongata, Matthews (under the pseudonym 

 of"Mathew"); and in Stein's Catalogue «// of Mr. Matthews^ 

 species are utterly passed over without notice (though that 

 gentleman's simultaneously published and closely allied genus 

 and species, Dinopsis fuscata, are in it allowed to stand), in 

 spite of their recognition by De Marseul. Surely the " literas 

 horum sex annorum — non facile conquisivi" of Stein's preface 

 cannot be construed by him as extending to 1838. 



103. Tachyporus pusillus, Grav.; Wat. Cat. 



var. scituluSj Wat. Cat., nee Er. ; E. C. 

 Rye, 1. c, 3. 

 The true T. scitulus (of which I possess a type from 

 M. Fauvel, and which does not as yet appear to have been 



