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and impressed ; anterior tubercles not prominent ; scutellum bronzed ; 

 elytra nearly black with a slight tint of violet, punctures green-gilt, inter- 

 stices of the rows not wrinkled ; an anterior impression near the suture . 

 rounded at the apex ; posterior legs long, with thighs somewhat curved, 

 attenuated at the base, armed at the apex with two teeth placed 

 consecutively, the first long, slender, and acute ; the last wide, short, and 

 denticulated posteriorly. 



This species is nearly related to D. crassipcs Fab., but the antennae 

 and the legs are entirely black, the teeth on the posterior thighs are not 

 equal. 



[Probably synonymous with D. episcopalis Lac. Taken on shore of 

 Lake Superior.] 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Personal.— In part No. 2, " Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heter- 

 oceres,*' the author, Mr. Herman Strecker, makes a most uncalled for and 

 ungentlemanly attack on me, which in justice to myself, much as I dislike 

 introducing matters of this sort into a scientific periodical, I can scarcely 

 allow to pass unnoticed. 



It appears that Mr. Strecker received last summer, from Mr. Couper, 

 specimens of a Papilio which he had taken on the Island of Anticosti 

 while on a collecting tour there. At first Mr. S. says he thought it might 

 be my P. brevicauda, described in a foot note in " Packard's Guide," but 

 on comparing the description there given with his specimens, he found 

 them to differ in some important particulars. He then proceeds to say 

 (I copy verb, at lit.,) " I now again had the pleasant excitement incidental 

 to endeavoring to study out bare descriptions, unaccompanied by figures, 

 and in my misery I wrote to Mr. Couper, in Montreal, requesting him to 

 try to see the types of Brevicauda, and compare his examples with them, 

 or if that was impossible, to write to Mr. Saunders, of Ontario, Canada, 

 who described it and with whom he was acquainted, concerning the 

 species ; after some time Mr. Couper wrote ' I communicated with the 

 Rev. Canon Innes (in whose collection are specimens of Brevicauda) and 

 Mr. W. Saunders, asking for information regarding P. Brevicauda ; up to 

 this instant no answer from either ; ' this certainly was not very satis- 

 factory, but as I was not particularly anxious to make a fool of myself by 

 re-christening old species, I importuned Mr. Couper to try the gentleman 



