view, I thought they were geminated. If it is new to you, I 

 shall present it to you on the first opportunity. 



Fig. 1. 



I would take the liberty to request of you to lend me your 

 volumes of Schonherr, or any other work on Entomology which 

 you think would assist me in making out the genera and spe- 

 cies of insects, if you are not about to make use of them during 

 the ensuing vacation ; be assured that they will be used with 

 care and returned safely to you. Since the publication of Prof. 

 Peck's lectures has been given up, I have had some thoughts 

 of devoting a portion of my leisure to describing the insects in 

 this vicinity, and though I feel incompetent to the task, still I 

 would undertake it, unless I find it likely to be undertaken by 

 some one else ; any assistance you could afford me would be 

 gratefully received and duly acknowledged. 



l See also the letter of Sept. 4, 1828 (Harris to Hentz). 



