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ma7ii; and I do not see the propriety of removing Patrohus- 

 from a near connection with Calatlms and Platynus, to place it 

 where Kirby has put it, near to Blethisa, etc. 



Dejean w^as not acquainted Avitli the male of his Metrius con- 

 tractus, the only species he had examined. I think he was 

 wrong in putting it with his division of SivipUcipedes. The 

 tarsi of the males in this genus show that they should go among 

 the Patellimani. The palpi are almost exactly like those of 

 Dlccelus ; the short antenna3 remind you of those of Panagceus ; 

 the emarg-ination of the tibia also removes the insect even 

 from the neighborhood of Nebria, etc. It is, in fact, one of 

 those insects which serve beautifully to connect the Patellimani 

 with the Grandipaljn. Artificially, it will come between Eury- 

 soma and Panagmus, for it has a bifid tooth in the emargination 

 of the mentum, two dilated joints (the second much smaller 

 than the first, but covered beneath with the same kind of 

 brush) to the first pair of tarsi in the males, and the last joint 

 of the palpi subsecuriform (as in Dicadus, CJdcenius, etc.). 

 Artificially I say it Avill come between these genera, but I con- 

 ceive its natural place to be near to Oodes, Remhus and Diccelus, 

 and especially near the latter. . 



HARRIS TO LECONTE. 



Cambridge, Nov. 29, 1852. 



Are you aware that our big Bu/prestis virginica is the true 

 B. Mariana of Linnaeus ? Such is the fact, as you will discover 

 on consulting Linnaeus' Museum Ludovic* Ulricas RegiuEe, 

 where it was first described. 



I am glad to be able to set you right in one instance where 

 you regret having changed one of Say's names, — that of Poecilus 

 chalcites. The change was unnecessary ; and Germar's Poecilus 

 chalcitis (not chalcites) is of later date than Say's chalcites. 



