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PSYCHE.
MANUSCRIPT NOTES BY THE LATE T. W. HARRIS ON SAY'S INSECTS AND PAPERS. - I.
[The Harris library in the Boston
Society of Natural History contains a
very large number of separates of Say's
entomological papers, including all the
rarer ones, received by him directly
from the author. These contain vari-
ous MS. notes in pencil by Harris
with a very few corrections or additions by Say himself ; thinking that these may throw some light upon the time of pub-
lication of the papers or help determine the insects treated, I have here collected such as seem to have any present
importance or interest, referring, for
ready convenience, to the Complete
Writings edited by Le Conte. A few
comments of my own are added in
brackets. - Samuel H. Scuifdcr\,
Page 74. ZFemex sericens. In the
Western Quarterly Reporter is added :
Length, exclusive of the oviduct, nearly one inch.
P. 74. Tremex obsole-tus. In the W.
Q. R. is added: Length of an inch.
A male; the lateral abdominal spots
are very indistinct.
P. 92. Pon@iliis formosw. In the W.
Q. R. is added : Length of the body of
$, -,%, of an inch ; to tip of wings more than &? of an inch ; of the body of 9,
I inch and $,
P. 98. Phrjyanea fasciata. In the
W. Q. R. is added : Length to the tip of wings
of an inch ; of body nearly
of an inch ; of antennae $ of an inch;
of superior wings nearly of an inch.
P. I n . Philanthus canalicziZutz~s.
Length
of an inch in W. Q. I<.
P. I I a. Philanthtis sonatus. Length
inch is W. Q. R.
P. 161. Article ix. Published prob-
ably first of April, 1823, John D.
Godman, Editor.
P. 163. ~7domah fiavicornis, line 3
add : and Massachusetts.
P. 164.PZesia marginata. We have
one large species in Massachusetts, but
not the marginata.
P. 164. Sa$yga s~ibzdafa. Penn-
sylvania. The wing nervures are not
like those of Sapyga nor Plesia Jur,,
and I should be inclined to retain the
genus Elis F., to which the insect cer-
tainly belongs. Illiger thought also
that the genus Elis should be retained
and the sexcincta, with the above, are
by no means congeneric with Plesia
Jur. According to Latrcille, the re-
curved anal style is the character of the Psiche 8 399.401 fpre.l'WO). h((o://psyclir nilclub ore/S/S-39 him!



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400 PSYCHE. [September 1899.
male ; if his observation be correct, the Carolinian species, Tiphia named, sen-
eria, olscura will exhibit the anal style in the male. I have only one male of
the present species.
P. I 67. Crabro 10-rnac~dirtm, line
3 ; add: and Massachusetts.
P. 169. Mefachile hithiuinus, line
4; add: and Massachusetts. Line 12;
for tarsi, read posterior tarsi.
1'. 176. Long's Second l~:xpedilion.
Many of the species here described are
stated to inhabit the " Northwest Ter-
ritory." The region thus designated by
Mr. Say corresponds to what are now
called Wisconsin and Minnesota.
P. 189. Cisfda serim, line 7 ; for
elytra, read elytral punctures.
P. 192. Coccinella luticulafa var. a
= C. ocellata var. Melsli., Cat. ; var. ;3. = C. ocellata Melsh. Cat.
P. I 9 2. Rhynchites mbricollis . A
variety of AnthriInfs colZaris [in Say's handwriting.]
P. 196. Altid taeiziata [note to
reference to Crioceris vi'ltata.1. This
name should be striolata, a correction
made by Fabricius himself in his Index
Syst. Eleuth. Kibricius reserves Hie
specific name vitlata for a Crioccris,
which does not belong to Geoffrey's
genus Haltica, and which, as is ob-
served by Fabricius, inhabits the cucum- ber vines in North America.
P. 214. Dolerus arvemis. mi-. 8,
black spot above wings obsolete.
.
P. 2 c,. SigaIphzds seyiceiis. In Sigal- phus the abdomen consists of three seg-
ments, but in Chelonus of one. Cryfitus
imrafor [see p. 2 I 61 is a true Sigalphus, while oculator and sulcatus are Cheloni. P. 222. IIedychrum ventrak. [Say
corrects the last of the description so
as to read] : terminal segments slightly longer than the preceding one, very
otfusely and sZ@/b ema?~imfe tip.
1'. 22 5. Cerapalns liipzinctata, line 8 i add after puncinres : and a pale yellow
spot just below the tip.
P. 226. Bedex ?m~?zodoiita, line 10 ;
for base, read tip.
P. 23 I. Cratro tibidis, line 7 ; for
postpectus, read pleura [correction by
Say].
P. 259. North America Curculio-
nides. The title upon the cover is as
follows : Descriptions of new species of Curculionides of North America, with
observations 011 some of the species
already known, by Thomas Say. New
Harmony, Indiana, July; 1831 [Received
by Dr. Harris May 5, 1832.1
P. 266. Chlorophanes acufus. Bra"
chystyiz~s harrisii Schnnh. in litt.
P. 2 7 8. Erodiscus myrmecodes. Otido-
P. 279. Balaninm rectus. B. rec-
tiros/ris SchOnh., iii, 376.
P. 280. Earidius irimtatus. B. ves-
fitus Schonh.
P. 281. Baridins picumws. 01iva-
ceus Say in litt. and Schbnh.
P. 293. Supplement. [Received by
Dr. Harris, Dec. 26, 1832.1
P. 29 5. C~jptorfiynchus jkzlmucoZlis.
Curcalio cZ&ratus Melsh. Cat.
P. 300. New species etc. found by
Barabino. [See next entry.]




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September 1899.1 PS Y C m 401
P. 3 10. Heteropterous Hemiptera.
Only the first eight pages of this tract were printed in 1831, as is evident from the fact that on 1% 19 [322 of Compl.
Writ.] under Pentatma bifida, Say's new
species eic. found by Barabino [p. 3001
is referred to, which was printed " Janu- ary, 1832,'' All the remainder of this
tract, therefore, must have been issued
after that date. [The first signature
also contains, on p. 5 [3 161, under the description of Pentatoma .hearts a simi- lar reference. A copy of the original
tract is in the Boston society of natural history.]
P. 364. Belostomaflumh. [var. a,
immaculatus does not appear in the
first Barabino pamphlet.]
P. 369. Correspondence. See
Southern Agriculturalist, Charleston, S. C., Vol. i, p. 203. [There followsin the Bisscminator an apology to Dr. Capers
for publishing his letter without consult- ing him, signed T. S.
Dr. Harris's copy
of this Correspondence is bound up with
a New Harmony pamphlet (Compl.
Writ., ii, 521) as a leaf from the Dis-
seminator (with other matter) pasted
between the title page and the paper
proper and unnumbcrecl ; whether it was
printed earlier or later does not ap-
pear; my own copy of the pamphlet
does not contain it.]
P. 373. Description of Hymenoplera.
[Dr. Harris gives January, 1829, as the
date of publication.]
P. 387. line I ; for scutcl, read suture. P. 390. Elater unicdor. Nails pecti-
nated.
P. 393. Elder erosns. Compare this
with Eumemis atropos; it is possible it
may be congeneric.
P. 395. f^ater siJacens. Length
nearly three tenths of an inch.
P. w,. Elater rtibricus. Abdomen
black.
ON ALEBRA AND RELATED GKNERA
,.
BY C. F. BAKER, Sl CKOIX FALLS, WISC.
The Typlilocybid genus Alebra is
separated from others of the tribe by
the fact that the elytron possesses a well developed appendix. The wing re-
scmbles that of tlic higher Jassids in
being distinctly margined, and with
three apical cells.
There are in my collection fourteen
Brazilian species uf the Typhlocybini
in which the elytron possesses an ap-
pendix. As far as the wings are con-
cerned, however, twelve of these species :we not at all like Alebra, as in these
the margin of the wings is entirely ob-
solete around tlic apex.
Five of these Brazilian species which
I had loaned Mr. Gillettc were cle-
scribed under Alebra in his late paper
on the Typhlocybini. (Proc. Nat.
Mus. XX). Only one of these (dor-




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