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Mr. R. Gurney on some 



number in Sphngnum-moss on Buxton Heath, and a careful 

 comparison with Mrazt-k's description leaves no doubt that 

 my provisional identification was correct. The specimens 

 differ in some small details from Mrazek's description, and, 

 as the species has not previously been found in Britain, some 

 description and figures may prove useful to others. 



The species was described by Mrazek in 1893 from speci- 

 mens taken in Bohemia, and in 1894 Schmeil recorded the 

 occurrence in Switzerland of a variety, which he named 



Fig. 3. 



Fia:. 4. 



Canthocamptus echinatus, Mrazek, 



Fig, 3. — First leg of female. 

 Fig. 4. — Third leg of male. 



var. luenensis, differing from the type only in the possession 

 of an additional seta on the basal joint of the fifth foot of the 

 female. This var. luenends has been found by others in 

 Switzerland, in the Dauphine Alps and at Lunz in Austria, 

 but the typical form has not been met with again, neither 

 has any description of the species been published other than 

 that of Mrazek. 



