March ,!*S4.| PSYCHE. 145 



THE FIRST NUMERO OF THOMAS SAY'S AMERICAN EXTO- 



MOLOGY AND TWO LET'I'ERS ON THE HESSIAN 



FLY HITHERTO NOT MENTIONED AMONG 



IHS PI BUSHED PAPERS. 



BV DH. IIEJOI.WX AITtI'ST HAIiEN, CAM BKinCW-;, MASS. 



I liouLjht. ill 18^0. out of the libr:ii'v nviiiL;' text, were printed otT in the year 



of tlie late \V. \'oii Wintheni, in Ham- 1S17, but as the\ were ne\er properly 



liurg, the first nuniero of Sav's American published, it has been thought advisa- 



entomologv. 1817; the first volume lile to include them in the present 



of his American entomologw 1S24; wmk.'" 



and the glossary. 182^. All tliree The little \iilume is printed on the 



are in the original binding and the same paper and same size as vol. i, 



two latter with tlie inscription on 1824; the cover has the same nice vig- 



the title : "To Mr. Win. W. von Win- nette (two Cupids catching insects), 



them from his friend the author." All luit marked vol. i, no. i, and Kneass, 



belong now to the lil)rarv of the Museum Young and Co. etc., which is also re- 



of comparative zoologv. peated on tlie title plate. The title is 



The first nuniero of volume i of the American | Entomology | or | Descrip- 



Amer. entomology, 1S17, is extremely tions | of the | Insects of North Ameri- 



rare ; indeed I have never seen another ea | illustrated by | Coloiu-ed Figures 



copv than mine in Europe or in Amer- | from | Drawings executed trom nature 



ica, and was also assured b\- the best | by Thomas Say | Member ot the 



authority, Mr. S. II. Scudder. that he Academv ot Natural Sciences of Fhila- 



liad never seen a cop\'. Dr. I. L. Le- delphia etc. | (the verses from Stilling- 



Conte, in his edition of Sax's works. fleet as in 1S24) Philadelphia | publish- 



1S59, \-. 1. p. I. note. sa\s : "These ed b\' Mitchell and Ames | W. Brown, 



references are to the suppressed first edi- Printer, Prune Street. | 181 7. — 



tion of the American entomology, which Then follows, p. iii to x, a prelace 



I have never seen." Later, in 1872, entireh dilFerent from that in 1S24. 



when I showed my copy to the late Doc- The six plates have no numero nor 



tor. he answeretl that he possessed a the name of the engraver, exactly as in 



similar copx'. Perhaps my meniorv is volume l, 1824, where the same six 



wrong; at least in the printed catalogue plates are alone not numbered, 



of his library it is not mentioned. I. Papilla Phllenor, with three 



I suppose some details aliout tliis pages of text, marked Plate I (the same 



rare book may not be out of place. numero in 1S24). 



Say. in the preface of vol. i. 1824. p. 2. Gcotrtipes Tlfy/is. with 4 pages 



\ii, says: "Six plates of the present of text, marked PI. II (Scaradaeiis 



volume, together with their accompa- Tltviis, pi. 4. in 1824). 



