518 Priocera pusilla. 



tion with each other. Having no opportunity of consulting Knoch, 

 I know not whether he has given a detailed description of his 

 species, or whether it is really synonymous with this. 



Priocera. Kirby.* 



PusiiLA. P. subvillosa rufa: eliftris pundato-striatis dptce Icevi- 



bus ; utroque fascia nigricanti punctisque duobus Jlavis. 



Long. Corp. Lin. 2|. 



Regio. America Septentrionalis ? Ex Mus. D. Francillon. 



Bescr. Structura et Habitus P. variegati, sed multoties minor, 

 et tota rufa, capite prothoraceque rubescentibus. Elytra 

 punctato-striata apice laevia. Fascia irregularis nigro-picea, 

 ei puncta duo flava in medio oblique ordinata elytrum utrura- 

 que signant. Tarsorum pulvilli subinvoluti. 



Art. LX. Additions and Corrections to Mr, Vigors's 

 Sketches in Zoology, 



Vol. I. p. 313.—-" Stirpes:' This term, which I at first used 

 as designating the immediately subordinate subdivisions of a family, 

 had been previously employed by Mr. MacLeay, as representing a 

 group of higher value than that of a family. I have consequently 

 altered the term, in my subsequent sketches, into that of Sub- 

 family. The Stirpes therefore of the Falconidw should be con- 

 sidered the subfamilies of that group. 



Vol. I. p. 327. — *' Genus Harpagus:' — The general want of 

 communication between the naturalists of this country and those 

 of the continent, has given rise to the multiplication of synonyms, 

 not merely in the case of species, but in that of groups. Em- 

 ployed at the same time upon the same subjects, it is almost 

 impossible that we can steer clear of each other's researches 

 in this respect: and unfortunately it is not always in our power 

 to determine the priority of the names thus respectively c«n- 



* Linn. Trans, xii. 389, 392. Plate xxi. fig. 7. 



