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faintly marked, and the interstices are flat and covered with ex- 

 tremely minute punctures and a delicate pubescence — this, however, 

 is very indistinct. The under parts of the insect are black ; the legs, 

 palpi, and three basal joints of the antenna? are red ; the remaining 

 joints of the antennae are brownish. 



I have named this species after my friend the Secretary of the 

 Entomological Society. 



Genus Geobius. 



Sp. 1. Geobius pubescens, Dejean, Syst. General des Coleopteres, 

 torn. v. p. 606. Supplement. 



Three specimens of this insect were brought by Mr. Darwin from 

 Maldonado, La Plata. 



Dejean states that in all the specimens examined by him, the an- 

 terior tarsi are simple : as the three specimens above-mentioned also 

 have the anterior tarsi simple, it would appear that the sexes do not 

 differ in this respect. 



[To be continued.] 



XLIII. — Notices of British Fungi. By the Rev. M. J. 

 Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. 



[With Five Plates.] 

 [Continued from Annals, vol. i. p. 264.] 



138. Agaricus Mappa, Willd., Fr. Epicr. p. 6. Hitherto 

 confounded with A. Phalloides, from which it is distinguished 

 by its less developed volva, which instead of being cup-shaped, 

 is little more than a mere rim fringing the bulb. The figures of 

 Sowerby and Curtis quoted in Eng. Fl. under A. Phalloides, 

 belong to this species. 



*139. A. Marice, Kl. in Linn. Since the discovery of this 

 species by Klotzsch at Glasgow, it has been found by Mr. 

 Henderson at Milton, Norths., and Mr. C. Babington at Bree- 

 don, Leic. I have no doubt that it is the plant figured under 

 the name of A. asper in Abbildungen der Schwamme, t. 21. 

 (consequently Amanita asper a, Pers. Syn.), and by Kromb- 

 holz, t. 29. fig. 18 — 21 ; but it is not apparently the plant of 

 Fries, who does not quote Krombholz's figure in his ' Epicrisis/ 

 though most of his figures are cited ; and certainly not the 

 plant of Bolton or Vittadini, which is the species described in 

 the e English Flora/ and which Fries I believe has in view, who 

 refers to their figures in his ' Epicrisis/ It is most probable that 

 Letellier's observations (Ann. des Sc. Nat. n. s. vol. iii. p. 87.) 

 on A. asper apply to A. Maria, which is far better arranged 

 in Lepiota than Amanita. Fries^ indeed, who refers the species 

 to A. acute-squamosus, Weinm., has done so, and quotes A. 

 asper of Ficinus as a synonym. 



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