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RECOEDS AND DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME BRITISH CAMPODEIDAE. 

 BY RICHARD S. BAGNALL, F.L.S. 



For some time I have been collecting material towards a monograph 

 of the British Camjyodeiclae and, as in present circumstances it is impos- 

 sible to find the time to make the detailed studies and complete the neces- 

 sary figures, I think it advisable to give some indications of the British 

 species and brief descriptions of new forms. Altogether I know twelve 

 or thirteen species, but three (or four) new forms are represented by but 

 two or three poor examples, and I have therefore withheld describing 

 them in the hopes that further material will come to hand. 



I take this opportunity to issue a further appeal for material ; in 

 my first appeal I suggested reserving one tube for one specimen. Most 

 species occur in little families or colonies, and I now suggest that one 

 tube should be reserved for the members of one little colony, or those 

 from one particular habitat. I particularly want examples from the 

 South or South- West of England ; from the coast and from the summits 

 of our higher mountains. 



I am particularly indebted to those friends whose names are inserted 

 in brackets in the following records. 



Section I. — MESo:ffOTUM and metajS^otfm with the lateral sub- 

 posterior MAJOR SETAE PRESENT. 



1. — Campodea fragilis Meinert (fig. 3). 



England : Northumberland, on the coast at Hartley, 1912, and 

 Whitley Bay, Mar. 1918 ; inland at Denton Burn, near Newcastle, 

 Dec. 1912, and Corbridge-on-Tyne, Mar. 1918. Durham, on the coast 

 at Whitburn, Aug. 1914. Hogley Bog, near Oxford, Feb. 1918 (ff. 

 Britten). Yorkshire, Weedley, 1915 (T. Stainforth). 



Scotland : Isle of May, May 1914 {W. Evans). 



Ireland : Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, Aug. 1915, and in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Stewartstown, Co. Tyrone, Mar. 1918 {N. H. Foster). 



2. — Campodea lubbocki Silvestri (fig. 4). 



Described from specimens found at Berkliamsted ( ColUnge) and 

 Oxford (i2. S. B.) ; apparently somewhat rare. 



Northumberland, Denton Burn, near Newcastle, Dec. 1912, and 

 Leazes Park, Newcastle. Durham, Gibside and Fencehouses ; lure. 

 Dorsetshire, Swanage, the only species, and Studland, Apl. 1918, 



