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arete j Mull. Mr. J Jenner Weir showed ajfjvariety of Scabiosa succisa, L., with the 

 flowers dirty lavender colour. Mr. Carrington said he had seen this variety in the 

 North of England, and especially in the Shropshire district, Mr, Step, Ccterach 

 officinarum, Willd., from Somersetshire, and remarked that it used formerly to be 

 found in the London district, at Fulham and Highgate, but he knew of no locality 

 near London at the present time. Mr. Turner said it used to occur in Headley 

 Lane 15 or 18 years ago. Mr J.J. Weir said he found but one plant at Lewes, and 

 that was 15 or 16 years ago. Mr. Carrington had found it behind the house of Sir 

 Thop. Moncreiff, Perth. Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell read a note on the nomenclature 

 of some British slugs. The species known in Britain as Amalia marginal a was not the 

 true A , marginata Draparnaud (which did noi appear to be found in the British Is- 

 lands) but was the Amalia carinata (Leach, 1820.) The South European subspecies 

 known as carinata Risso, was antedated by Leach's name and must therefore be 

 cailed Amalia fylva (Paulucci). The variety of Limax maximus commonly known as 

 Jchnstoni, must now be called Limax maximus, var. haynickii (Kal)., the description 

 and name of Dr: J. Kaleniczenko (1851) being prior to that of Moquin-Tandon. 

 Messrs. Carrington, Jenner Weir, and C. Fenn made some remarks on the same sub- 

 ject. Mr. Carrington said that he had lately found Avion atcr var. rubra (Moq). near 

 Brussels. 



T. U. A. Cockerell, (Secretary pro. tern). 



THE PTEROPHORINA OF BRITAIN, 

 Continued from page 132, Vol. XI. 



P. zetterstedtii. Until very recently this species was amongst the rarest 

 of our British " plumes." Thanks however, chiefly to Mr. W. Austin of 

 Folkstone, many of our collections are now supplied with fine speci- 

 mens in fair numbers. Perhaps no species has suffered more of late 

 years from over-description, than has this ; Mr. South having referred 

 specimens, first — to P. ttemoralis (" Entomologist," Vol. XIV., p. 304), 

 a Continental species not known in Britain, then to P. zetterstedtii 

 (' Entomologist,' XV., p. 33), and lastly, specimens were described by 

 the same writer as a new species, under the name of tceniadactylus 

 [ l Entomologist,' XV., p. 34), and this now defunct species was even 

 placed in another genus, viz. Amblyptilia. All this was very un- 

 fortunate, but matters have cleared considerably and our British 

 psevLdo-nemoralis, zetterstedtii and taniadactylus are at present comfort- 

 ably resting under the name zetterstedtii, although Mr. South has 

 recently threatened a return to the nemoraiis idea (' Entomologist,' 

 Vol. XXII., p. 30). 



Synonymy— Zetterstedtii, Zell. ' Isis ' (.1841), 777, PI. 4, 314, Linn. 

 Kut. Zeit. VI., 333 ; Tgstr. Bidrag 154 ; Frey 403 ; Sta. 4k Manual," 



