Entomological Society. 



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1. Pusillnm, Gylle?ihal, I.e. i. 189, iv. 293; Erichson ; Redlen- 

 backer; Gillmeister ; Faune Francaise ; Haliday : tninulissimurn, 

 Stephens : nitidum, Heer : 4-foveolatum, Allihert : evanescens, 

 Mar sham. 



2. Laevigatum, Erichson^ I. c. 35 ; Gillmeister ; Faiine Franc. ; 

 Haliday : pnnctatum, Stephens, 



3. Punctatum, Gyllenhal^ I.e. iv. 293; Faune Fr. ; Wollasfoji ; 

 Haliday: fuscicorne, Erichson: al iitace a, G^7//y^(?^5^6'r ; littoral e, ob- 

 sc 11 ri c o r 11 e, Mo tschou Isky, 



4. Apicale, Erichson^ I. c. 35; Sturm; Re dtenh acker ; Gill- 

 meister ; Faune Francaise ; Haliday: perpusillum, me\di^^ Mar skam ; 

 Stepkens : nitidura, Stepkens : evanescens, Heer; Motsckoulsky : 

 punctatum, elongatum, myrmecopliilum, Motsckoulsky. 



Gen. 8. Nossidium. 



Nossidiuni, Erickson, L c. 17 ; Faune Fr.; Haliday. Anisarthria, 

 p., Stepkens ; Motsckoulsky. Ptilium, p., Redtenhacker. Dermcstes, 

 p., Marskam, 



1. Pilosellum, Marskam^ Col. Brit. 78 ; Stepkens ; Erickson ; 

 Faune Francaise; Haliday: nitidulum ? brunneum ? Marskam; 

 Stepkens : Ferrarii, Redtenhacker. 



A. Matthews. 



Gumley, Market Harborough, 

 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 my letter which 

 was particularly addressed to you, I suppose I must 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 

 neitlier lawful nor right. 



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 



