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Hancock SOUK- 'IVtt iiiian jsi mlirs.. i'7. r > Economic Entomology 

 Smtt h Catoral.-r nl Montgomery 



County. VH _>*> x " u-s : ""' Nrvvs ' 



SU inner Tin- Fourth of lulv ......... 1'Sii Kiit<iiimli>:ii<-al l.ilfrat lire ............ L'!"i 



s lir]gorlan<l Stuiromunt Is caroliiia hoiii^sol" Sociclirs ................... :!(l'J 



In Nfw York ....... ..-!!* 



Exclmnges ............. ............... i, 11 



Kclitonal .............. ...'J!Ki 



SOME TETTIGIAN STUDIES, 



I'.\ .1. I,. HANCOCK. 



In Prof. I.u'iiacio IJolivar's I'lssav. *s7. tlicrc i>> mllcdh civ 

 Brought together under the genus I'tinilctti.i- ;i ninnlx-r of s|>c- 

 <-ies which I have found necessary to revise. We find in (In- 

 disposition of species there are three sections, the first, page 

 L'70. being separated from the rest of t he series by t lie charac- 

 ters of the posterior tarsi, as follows: Section one, first and 

 third articles of the posterior tarsi equal in length, under 

 which two species are thus grouped, nanielx : l'<ir<ilftli.<- j / -n- 

 ri(nuiN JJol.and Ptinilt Iti.i r<ii/rnnciisifi ]>olivar. 



These two Species belong t< the same eategorv as the n<-\\ 

 species described here and they form a distinct genus, to 

 which I have given the new name. Al/u/r/tii. the type being 

 prolongatus. They, moreover, approximate the M<lr<><l<n\t\ in 

 stead of the Trftit/Ht'. and are in consequence dropped from tin- 

 original Pttni'flti.r series entirel\ . 



It is but ]>roper to >talc that m\ csleeined colleague. I'rol. 

 liolivar. in a eommunieal ion to me reeogni/ed I hat a eliange. 

 sueli as 1 lia\ ' effecled . \\onld probably be uecessar\ . lull the 



