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Psyche 6:357-358, 1891.

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P1CKERING.- VIII.
1.1
[HARRIS TO SAY.]
1203 insects are for yourself; the re-
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. March 21, 1834.0
mainder, being W u e s from my cab-
To THOS. SAY ESQ.
inet, you will please to return as soon
Dear Sir,
after examining them as you can. I hope
On the 27th November
you will let the numbers remain attached I wrote to give you infoimation that
to all of these insects for the present, my long-promised collection of insect3
even to those which are for yourself; &
was shipped in a large case, in the
I must beg you, in particular, to keep
Tarquin from Boston for New-Orleans.
the uniques in the boxes in which they
I have since received a receipt for the
are sent during the time you may find
same from Mr. Jos. Barabino, dated it necessary to retain them. Red N. 0. January ijth, enclosed in a tickets are attached to a number of letter from my friend Vose, who tells insects, which were presented to me me that Mr. B. will pay every necessary
by Mr. J. W. Randall, (a student in
attention in forwarding the collection the University, who has a good collec- safely to you; & I therefore presume tion of native insects of this vicinity,) that you must, long before this, have & who is desirous of desciibing them if received it. As it is possible that my new. In the Mss catalogue I have letter may not have reached you I shall endeavoured to give the specific names repeat, what I therein stated, that a of the first describers, whenever known succession of domestic afflictions pre- to me, notwithstanding that they might vented me from complying
with my be less commonly received than other promise to you until November last, names. The same has been done in but that my love for Entomology still the printed catalogue, made out about remains, & with it an increased desire two years ago for Prof. Hitchcock, & to obtain your kind assistance in deter- printed last autumn almost without mining many of the insects sent to you. alteration or correction. This brings Of the collection (consisting in all of me to the present object of my letter, 1970specimens, or about 1800 species,) which is to solicit your immediate at-



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PSYCHE.
[December 1892.
tention to the collection, with a view to enable me to revise, correct. & enlarge
the catalogue of insects attached to
Prof. Hitchcock's "Survey of Massa-
chusetts", of which he has just inform'ed me a new edition will Be issued iri the
course of 2 or 3 months. DO not, I beg
you, disappoint me in this matter, for I know that the catalogue is very imper-
fect, & in njdny instances may be incor- rect. Typographical errors you will
discover iri it; for these however I am
not answerable ; blit, for the credit of American Science, I do hope that you
will help me to give d better & longer
list of the insects of Massachusetts,
which the collection sent to you will
undoubtedly enable you to do. In the
case is a blank catalogue, prepared with numbers corresponding to the insects
themselves, & to the Mss catalogue, in
order to save you some trouble & to
obviate mistakes & omissions ; & ample
space is left in it for any remarks you
may be willing to add to the names.
As fast as you fill up the sheets of this catalogue please enclose them in an
envelope & forward them to me by
mail. In cases where you entirely
agree with me in the name you can, if
you prefer, merely write yes against the numbers : - where I have expressed a
doubt (?), if the name nevertheless be
right, you may say yes with't doubt; in
all other cases I rely upon the informa- tion you may give alone, having hitherto been unable to ascertain the names, or
having merely given names myself to
supposed nondescripts.
I believe that I have already thanked
you for the specimens of Cremas-
tocheilus you sent to me - two of them
came unbroken, but the others were
injui-@d by the crushing of the little bit of wood in which they were enclosed;
still I was enabled from the fragments
to ascertain that one of them was a new
species. The description with figures
of these insects ought to have appeared
long ago ; but the Boston Society of
Natural History has delayed publishing
until this spring, not for the want of
matter, but from a desire of increasing
their cabinet, library, & other means,
before undertaking so serious a project
as the publication of a Scientific
Journal. The first number, however,
is now in press, & the zd, which is to
contain my paper, will soon follow, &
will be forwarded to you.
With the insects sent to you I also
sent a few shells, the papers containing which were numbered. Of these you
will take note, &, at your entire leisure, 1 shall be glad to have you give me the
names corresponding to these numbers.
And now, my dear Sir, I have im-
posed upon your friendship & your love
of science a heavy task - but how could
I help it? 1 only wish that it were in
my power to do something for you in
return. In the hope, whatever may
have been my apparent delinquency,
that you will now fully exonerate me
from wilful negligence, & will favor me
with a speedy reply, I subscribe myself
Your friend & sei-v't
T. WM. HARRIS.




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December 1892.1 F'sEHE. 359
(Concluded from page 350.)
arcuate band, the more or less pallid costal margin faintly infuscated next the outer limit of the vitta. Hind femora with the inferior carina strongly arcuate, the outer face pallid, more or less strongly marked with three
broad, oblique, blackish bands, beneath like the tibiae and tarsi, vety pale luteous, the spines black tipped.
Length of body, 8, 22 mm., 9, 28 mm. ;
of tegmina, 3, 24 mm., 9, 26 mm.
Described from I 8, I 9, taken in
the Prescott Mountain District, central
Arizona, by Dr. Edward Palmer.
HIPPISCUS (X.) LATEFASCIATUS sp. nov.
Very dark brownish fuscous, marked with
cinereous, of a moderately robust form (the $ rather slender) and rather below the me- dium size. Head sparsely and slightly rug- ulose above, not very broad, the fastigium of the vertex plane with rather low bounding walls, open behind, and in front completely engulfing the faintly biareolate median
foveola, the lateral foveolae distinct, trian- gular, rather small, the frontal costa of mod- erate breadth, sulcate throughout except at the contracted summit. Pronoturn very dark, tlie dorsum sometimes with subdecussate, broad, cinereous markings, the lateral lobes more tinged with gray, but with a large
central quadrangular black patch on prozona ; dorsum of $ nearly plane, of 9 somewhat
tumid, of both rather strongly and coarsely ven-uculose, the more prominent elevations longitudinal but short; median carina obso- lete between the sulci (but here accompanied by only an obsolete discal scutellum) no- where prominent except where it passes, in the 9, over the stabbed front of the meta- zona ; process rectangulate ; lateral carinae prominent, rather sharp, and extended.
Tegmina pantherine, cinereous, and dark
brown, the darker markings prevailing, ex- tending to the apex, crossing almost or quite the whole wing, and everywhere very much broken, hardly more blended at the base than elsewhere; sutural stripe cinereous. Wings pale citron at base with corresponding reticu- lation, pellucid with black reticulation and a few cellular maculations at apex, and between an unusually broad, arcuate, blackish fuligi- nous band which narrows only when follow- ing the outer margin to the anal angle, which it reaches and leaves in the $ only a little more than two, in the $! three or four mar- ginal lobes free at the apex; it is separated by a fine fulvous line from the humeral vitta, the outer limit of which corresponds to that of the arcuate band and extends nearly or quite to the base, leaving only the basal half of the costal edge light colored. Hind femora externally pale cinereous with three broad, very oblique, blackish bands, internally coral red blotched with blackish at the base,
beneath, like the tibiae, coral red, the latter more or less hoary externally on the basal half, the spines black tipped.
Length of body, 3, 23-25 mm., 9, 33.5-37 mm ; tegmina, f , 25-27 mm., 2, 31-5-36
mm.
Described from 4 $ , 2 9 .
This is a northern species, living next
our northern boundary, occurring from
the Red River in Manitoba (Donald
Gunn) and Calgary, Alberta, British
Columbia, June I I (Bean in S. Hen-
shaw's collection) to the upper Mis-
souri and Yellowstone (I?. V. Hayden).
HIPPISCUS (X.) OBSCURUS sp. nov.
Blackish fuscous, of slender form and
small size.
Head dark only on summit, being
elsewhere cinereous or livid, flecked with fuscous dots, not very large nor very tumid, faintly subrugulose in the vicinity of the



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