5o8 rohwEr: notes on sawfliEs 



3. Agonandra conzattii Standi., sp. nov. 



Branches stiff, the young ones green, striate, minutely puberulent, 

 the older ones grayish; petioles slender, 2 to 3 cm. long, minutely 

 puberulent; leaf blades lance-oblong to oblong-ovate, 2 to 3 cm. long, 

 cuneate-acuminate at base, rounded or very obtuse at apex, glabrous; 

 fruit subglobose, i .5 cm. long, the stout pedicels 5 to 6 mm. long. 



Type in the U. S. National Herbarium, no. 1012311, collected at 

 Portillo de Coyula, Distrito de Cuicatlan, Oaxaca, Mexico, altitude 

 1600 meters, April 23, 1919, by C. Conzatti (no. 3558). 



A sterile specimen from Tehuacan, Puebla {Rose & Rose 11 221), 

 is probably the same species. Prof. Conzatti gives the vernacular 

 name as "maromero." 



Agonandra conzattii is related to A. obtusifolia more closely than to 

 A. racemosa. It differs chiefly in the size of the fruit, which is twice 

 as large as in A. obtusifolia. Several fruiting specimens of the latter 

 species have been seen by the writer, and in all of them the fruit is 

 very uniform in size; therefore it seems probable that the much larger 

 fruit of the Oaxaca plant is a character of specific value. 



ENTOMOLOGY. — Notes on the Harris collection of saw/lies, 

 and the species described by Harris. S. A. Rohwer, Bureau 

 of Entomology.^ 

 Harris wrote four papers- dealing with sawflies. Two of these 



were mere lists of the species and published as a part of a list 

 of the animals and plants of Massachusetts. In these lists 

 occur a number of new names unaccompanied by descriptions 

 which stood as nomina nuda for many years. Later, in 1841, 

 Harris characterized a few of these species but many of them 

 remained nomina nuda until many years later, when Norton 

 studied the Harris collection and described the new species. 

 The unfoitunate thing about this was that in describing the 

 species Norton accredited the species to Harris and there has 



1 Received June 8, 1920. 



2 List of the insects of Massachusetts, in Hitchcock's Rapt. Geol. Mineral. Bot. 

 and Zool. Mass., 566-595. 1833. Sawflies treated on p. 586. 



Ibid., second edition, enlarged, 553-601. 1835. Sawflies treated on pp. 

 582-584. 



A report on the insects of Massachusetts, injurious to vegetation. Cambridge, 

 1 84 1. Reprinted in 1842, second edition in 1852. 



Sawfly of the raspberry; Selandria (Hoplocampa) rubi, New Engl. Farmer 

 II, 2: 33. figs. 1850. 



