336 gundlach's work on the odonata of cuba 



corresponding footnote (1) reads "Se publico y se publica aun, 

 en pliegos mensuales especiales, como parte de los Anales de la 

 Academia de Ciencias medicas, fisicas y naturales de la Habana. 

 . . . De la Entomologia contiene el tomo II los Himenopteros, 

 Neuropteros y Ortopteros. El tomo III principio con los Cole- 

 opteros." In these Apuntes the Odonata of Puerto Rico are 

 listed without descriptions or citations of localities, but with 

 references to literature under each species, including page ref- 

 erences to his Contrihucion. 



Neither the Catalogue of Odonata by Kirby nor that of North 

 American species by Muttkowsky quotes Gundlach's Contrihu- 

 cion, nor is any reference to it to be found in the extensive biblio- 

 graphical citations under each species in the great work of Ris on 

 the Libellulinae.^ Since it has thus remained unknown for so 

 long a period, it seems desirable that it be brought to the atten- 

 tion of entomologists. I have, from time to time, as opportunity 

 permitted, studied its text critically with the aid of chiefly Cuban 

 specimens and the present paper contains my results. 



The full title of the copy in the possession of the American 

 Entomological Society is | Contribucion | a la | Entomologia 

 Cubana, | Tomo II. | Habana. | Imp. "La Antilla," de Cacho- 

 Negrete, | Calle de Zulueta numero 73. | 1886. | It consists 

 of 281 + viii + v pages, of which pp. 5-187 + viii are concerned 

 with Hymenoptera, pp. 189 — 281+i-v with Neuroptera. The 

 type-form of the pages measures 18X10.5 cm. There are no 

 illustrations. 



This copy is incomplete, as is evidenced from the statement of 

 the contents of Tomo II by Gundlach in 1894, quoted above, and 

 by the citation by Scudder in his Alphabetical Index to North 

 American Orthoptera -described in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth 

 Centuries:"^ "Gundlach, Juan. Contribucion a la Entomologia 

 Cubana. Tomo II. Habana, 1886, 1891. 8o. (Parte cuarta, 

 Ortopteros, pp. 287-396 was issued in 1890 and 1891.)" 



It will be noted that the title-page of Tomo II of the Contribu- 

 cion is dated 1886. Gundlach's statement of 1894 mentions its 

 publication in the Anales of the Havana Academy. On referring 

 to the Anales, I find the following: "Indice de las Materias con- 

 tenidas en el Tomo XXIV. . . . Nota. — Con la presents 



1 Cat. Colls. Zool. Selys. 



2 Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 1901, p. 364. 



