380 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Did they in earnest seek ? He sought 

 In earnest too. From bounteous store 

 He loved with lavish hand to pour 



Jewels of knowledge and of thought. 



Responsive hearts, unwavering eyes 

 His steadfast gaze compelled again ; 

 He loved the truth, his speech was plain, 



He could not stoop to compromise. 



IV. 



Oh ! all too rare the thoughtful mind 

 That keeps abreast of Science' way 

 And still reveres the older day. 

 The simpler faith that lags behind. 



Dead now, but while the ages run 



His work shall live ; 'tis such as he 



Alone inspire posterity, 

 Fathering their kind from son to son. 



We know not when our days are sped, 

 And I, who through his friendship stand, 

 Would lift some falterer by the hand 



Ere I lie nerveless with the dead. 



Trinity College School, Port Hope. Frank Morris. 



SYNONYMICAL NOTES ON NORTH AMERICAN HOMOPTERA. 



BY EDWARD P. VAN DUZEE, BUFFALO, N. Y. 



On the occasion of a recent visit to New England it was my privilege 

 to examine three interesting collections of insects : Mr. Samuel Henshaw 

 very kindly gave me access to the fine entomological collections of the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge ; to Mr. C. W. Johnson I 

 am indebted for an opportunity of examining the valuable remains of the 

 Harris collection, now housed in the museum of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History, many of the species in which were determined for Dr. 

 Harris by Thomas Say, and are the nearest approach to Say types now 

 available to the student of American insects ; and, finally, on the way 

 home I stopped over at Albany, where Dr. Felt very kindly opened up for 

 my inspection the precious type specimens prepared by Dr. Fitch to 

 accompany his ''Catalogue of the Homopterous insects in the State 



November, itjoq 



