﻿216 1896. Entomol. Nachrichten. No. 14. 



Dr. Karsch on the same fauna to be found in recent 

 volumes of Entomologische Nachrichten. 



The first of tliese, on the Odonata collected by Dr. 

 Abbott, was completed and sent to Washington in the early 

 part of 1892; the second, on those of the Chanler Expedi- 

 tion, in the autumn of 1894. The printer's proof of the first 

 at least, if not also of the second, was sent to my address 

 in Philadelphia in October, 1895, after I had come to Europa, 

 and as it was marked "urgent", a friend, knowing that to 

 send it to nie would involve considerable delay, kindly read 

 the same and returned it to Washington at once. The texts 

 of both stand therefore as I wrote them in 1892 and 1894 

 respectively. 



In the meantime, however, with the permission of the 

 late Prof. Riley, I had published brief descriptions of the 

 new species in the Transactions of the American Entomo- 

 logical Society. Vol. XIX, pp. 161 — 164, June, 1892. The 

 references to these preliminary descriptions were twice sent 

 to Washington by myself to be inserted in the fuUer paper 

 on Dr. Abbott's Odonata, now under consideration. This 

 was not done; the words "new species" should be stricken 

 out and the references to the Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. cited 

 substituted in their place. 



These Statements will explain why my now apparently 

 unnecessary participation in the controversy over ''erythraea 

 — Tramea or Trithemis'", appears as a footuote to page 144 

 of the Chanler report, after Dr. Karsch 's note on the 

 subject in Ent. Nach. XX, pp. 382 — 383, Dec. 1894. I raay 

 only remark now that, until Dr. Karsch then and there 

 statcd that he had seeu Tramea erythrnea Brauer and satisfied 

 himself that it was in reality a Trühemis, the mere reference 

 of this species to Trithemis in de Borre's "Repertoire," 

 without any accompanying statement or explanation, was 

 not sufficient to overweigh Dr. Brauer's description of this 

 species as a Tramea. TrifJiemis eryihraea in my Abbott 

 paper is always Lihellula eryihraea Brülle, since, as will be 

 Seen from p. 127, I was disposed to deny that Crocothemis 

 was entitled to rank as a genus distinct from Trithemis. 



Mus. Vol. XVIII. pp. 121—142. Washington 1895. 



Notes on the Odonata from East Africa, collected by the 

 Chanler Expedition. By Philip P. Calvert. L. c. Vol. 

 XVIII. pp. 143—145. Washington 1895. Author's separates 

 of both distributed April, 1896. 



