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1. Piisilluin, GijUenhaJ, I.e. i. 189, iv. 293; Erichso)? ; Redten- 

 hacher ; Gillmeister ; Faune Francaise ; Haliday : rninutissimnm, 

 Stephens : iiitidiim, Heer : 4-foveolatuin, Allihert : evanescens, 

 Mar sham. 



2. Laevigatum, Erichson, I. c. 35; Gillmeister ; Faune Franc.; 

 Haliday : pimctatuin, Stepliens. 



3. Punctatiim, GyllenJial, I. c. iv. 293 ; Faune Fr. ; TVollaston ; 

 Haliday : fiiscicorne, Erichson : alutacea, Gillmeister : littoiale, ob- 

 s cu ri c o ni e, Motsch o u I sky. 



4. Apicale, Erichson, I. c. 35; Sturm; Redtenhacher ; Gill- 

 meister ; Faune Francaise ; Haliday: perpusilliim, melas, il/ar^/i^/^y^ ; 

 Stephens: nitidiim, Stephens: evanescens, Heer; Motschoulsky : 

 punctatum, elongatum, myrmecopbilum, Motschoulsky. 



Gen. 8. Nossidium. 



"Nossidium, Erichson, I. c. 17; Faune Fr.; Haliday. Anisavthria, 

 p., Stephens ; Motschoulsky. Pliliiim, p., Redtenhacher. Dermcstes, 

 p., Marsham. 



1. Pilosellura, Marsham, Col. Brit. 78; Stephens; Erichson; 

 Faune Francaise; Haliday: nitidulum ? bmnneum ? Marsham; 

 Stephens : Ferrarii, Redtenbacher. 



A. Matthews. 



Gumley, Market Harhorough, 

 May 15, 1858. 



Remarks on the Sale of the Entomological Society's Exotic Collection : a Letter 



addressed to the President. 



Dear Dr. Gray, Oatlands. 



As you have taken no notice whatever of the only part of ray letter which 

 was particularly addressed to you, I suppose I raust come to the conclusion that the 

 Council do not mean, by a small act of grace, to extenuate a great injustice. 



Unconvinced by your lecture, I stick to my text that you have done that which is 

 neither lawful nor rijjht. 



The Society may, as you say, " derive great benefit from what it has done." It 

 may prosper by the aid of that which I believe to be ill-gotten wealth; but I consider 

 that its stability and good name went with the tattered fragments of the collection 

 which was dispersed at the sale-room. 



Before then I would not have presumed to compare my private collection with 

 that of a Society, but since you have done so I accept the comparison. My life, in a 



