NOTES AND ADDITIONS. 



Under this head it is not my purpose to publish the many additional 

 notes of observations which have been made by myself and others on the 

 various insects treated of in the reports ; but rather to indicate a few of 

 the more important facts, especially such as are unpublished and bear 

 on life-histories left incomplete. As, in preparing the reports, the older 

 and better known generic nomenclature was almost uniformly employed, 

 it is thought advisable to indicate in this bulletin the more recent 

 nomenclature, and this is accordingly done either in these "jSTotes" or 

 in connection with the reproduced "Descriptions of Xew Species" which 



follow : 



HYMENOPTERA. 



STIZUS GRANDIS Say (Rep. I, p. 27, Fig. 12) This lias been shown by Mr. W. H. 

 Patton (Bull. U. S. Geol.-Geog. Survey, vol. V, p. 342) to be only a variety of 

 speciosus Drury, which is the type of the genus Spliecius Dahlb. 



CRYPTUS EXTREMATIS Cress. (Sep. IV, p. Ill) The questions in regard to the 

 character of C. samiae Pack, have been settled by Dr. Hagen from an examination 01 

 the types (Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., II, 206; 1875) confirming the conclusion which I 

 came to. In Bulletin No. 3 of the Commission (p. 47) I have suggested that extrematis 

 should sink as a synonym of samice, because two species (one of which is nuncius") were 

 combined under it in the original description. 



MICROGASTER MiLiTARis Walsh (Rep. I, p. 89 and subsequently) This is an Apanteles' 

 (See my Notes on N. A. Microgasters, etc. (Extr. from Trans. St. Louis Ac. Sc. IV), 

 p. 19.) 



ANTIGASTER MIRABILIS Walsh (Rep. VI, p. 162) Mr. L. O. Howard has shown 

 (Can. Ent. October, 1880. p. 209, and February, 1881, p. 31) that the habit of rolling 

 back is not uncommon in the Eupdmldes, and that Antigaster cannot well be separated 

 from Enpelmus as at present understood. 



COLEOPTERA. 



CARABID LARVAE (Rep. IX, p. 97) The second larva mentioned on this page was sub- 

 sequently reared by me to the perfect state and proved to be Amara obesa Say. It will be 

 found figured and described in the First Report of the Commission (p. 290). 



LEBIA GRANDIS, Hentz (Rep. Ill, p. 100) This belongs to Chaudoir's genus Loxopeza. 



LEBIA ATRIVEXTRIS Say (Rep. VIII, p. 3) Belongs to Chaudoir's genus Loxopeza. 



HIPPODAMIA MACULATA, DeGeer (Rep. I, p. 112 and subsequently) Now referred to 

 Mulsant's genus Meyilla. It does not appear that this species occurs also in Europe as 

 stated in the text. 



COCCINELLA MUNDA Say (Rep. II, p. 25) This is now considered synonymous with 

 Cycloneda sanguinca Linn. 



COCCINELLA PICTA Randall (Rep. V, p. 101) Now known as Harmoma picta. 

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