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(2, p. 407) said of it: "Discovered by a very assiduous 

 entomologist, Eichard Eawlins, Esq." — whose premature 

 death he laments in a footnote — "under stones near 

 Edinburgh, where it appears to be pretty common ; it has 

 since been observed under the bark of decaying willow- 

 trees and moss near Roslin and in Ravelston Wood." In 

 another paper (3, p. 380) he says : " Habitat inter muscos 

 et sub lapidibus prope Edinburgum vulgatissima. Detexit 

 R. Rawlins, cujus nomen gerit." In his Zoological Miscellany 

 (4) there is a coloured figure of the animal. At the present 

 day I should describe it as widely, but sparsely, distributed ; 

 in my experience it is nowhere common. It is entered as 

 " rare " in Johnston's Berwickshire list (5) ; Gibson- 

 Carmichael (7) knew it only from the neighbourhood of 

 Edinburgh, and the only record in the Clyde list (13) is 

 my own from Cartland Crags, near Lanark. Unknown in 

 the south of England, or from Ireland. Abroad it has been 

 reported from I^orway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and 

 Austria- Hungary (Latzel), but apparently not from France. 

 But eastern examples described by Latzel under this name 

 may be a distinct race. The " copulatory feet " in my 

 specimens certainly agree much better with Verhoeff's figures 

 of his var. simile than with Latzel's. 



Local data. — The Bush, near Roslin, two under log, Oct. 1893, !P. , and 

 Polton end of Roslin Glen, 9 under bark on rotten stump, March 1905; 

 Uphall, ad. $ , Sept. 1896 ; Linlithgowshire side of Avon, near Inveravon, 

 ad. 6 and ? , in flood refuse, Feb. 1903; reservoir near Aberdour, Fife, 3 6 6, 

 in flood refuse, Feb. 1903 ; Tulliallan Woods, 6,2 ? ? , under rotten branch 

 among dead leaves, Nov. 1904; Aberfoyle, ?, April 1896; Braendam Quarry, 

 near Callander, one under stone, April 1900, ! P. 



Family lULID^. 

 Blaniulus fuscus, Am Stein. 



This small and, as a rule, darkish brown lulid is common 

 under bark on dead trees, especially conifers, throughout the 

 area. A previous record of my own (12&) seems so far to 

 stand alone for Scotland. South of England (common), and 

 Ireland (Pocock, 9), Norway, Switzerland, etc. Without 

 males, and they seem to be rare, there is always the possi- 



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