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PSYCHE. 



[April 1S91. 



and to my knowledge, I cannot stoop 

 to the knavery of changing it. * The 

 publ'n of the paper will soon take place 

 in the Journal, it was in fact in the press 

 before I ret'd from N. W. [the North- 

 west]. The fact of the Peach tree being 

 subject to the attacks of a Buprestis is 

 altogether new to me. We have 2 sp. 

 at least wh. agree w. y'r desc'n viz. 

 femorata & characteristica. The latter 

 being rather larger than y'r mensuration 

 & the thorax having elevated lines as 

 well as the elytra I think it probable y'r 

 depred'r is femorata wh. is orn'd w. 2 

 dull brassy irregulat spots on ea. elytron 

 more or less indistinct, but somet. obso- 

 lete. 



The g's Lytta F. is certainly same w. 

 Cantharis Oliv. &c. The larva? of the 

 Cantharids live & metam'e in the earth 

 feeding on roots &c, but for more in- 

 form'n I must refer you to Sonnini's Buf- 

 fon Vol. 54, p. 395 ; also Olivier, Vol. 

 t ) . The no. of sp. already disc'd in the 

 U. S. is 1 6, viz. segmenta f, vittata X? 

 marginata X, atrata X, Nuttalliif, al- 

 loidaf, articularist, immaculataf , aenea 

 X,polita, sphaericollist, maculataj, fer- 

 ruginae|, cinerea X) Afzeliana, reticu- 

 lataf ; of these those marked w. a X in- 

 hab. this state, those marked w. a | have 

 been desc'd by myself and will appear in 

 the Journal . It is prob'e that nearly if not 

 all of these sp. might be used w. effect 



Personal Notes. — Mr. P. R. Uhler,one 

 of the leading American entomologists, has 

 recently been elected provost of the Peabody 

 institute in Baltimore. Mr. Uhler will still 

 retain the position of librarian which he has 

 held for the past twenty-five years. It is not 



*[He changed his mind, describing it in this very 

 paper under the name of bivittala. It is the S. Candida 

 r>T Fabricius.] 



in vessication. By far the finest sp. is 

 the Nuttallii, wh., as well as 2 or 3 of 

 the other sp. is somew't larger than 

 vesicatoria & more brilliant. On one oc- 

 casion near Rocky M's. I saw this sp. 

 in such nos. that I c'd have gathered a 

 couple of quarts in % an hour, but few 

 were seen elsewhere, & but one occurred 

 on last exped'n. Have not Illiger, nor 

 moth of apple worm. Do not know wh. 

 species of greg's caterp's you mean. 

 Rose-bug is Mel. subspinosa F. and 

 cucumber bug is Crioceris vittata F., 

 but I know no more of their history 

 than is familiar to every farmer. It w'd 

 give me g't pleasure to see those ins. 

 you mention desc'd by Peck. I have 

 not met w. his desc'n. 



The Peach Insect I desc'd sev'l months 

 since for a paper by Mr. Worth on this 

 ins. under name of AL. exitiosa. W'n 

 this essay will be publ'd I do not know, 

 it was read to the A. N. S. 6 or 8 months 

 ago. The sexes are very diff't. I have 

 b'n desc'g shells of U. S. & w'd be 

 much obliged to you for any sp's you 

 may pick up on y'r coast. Land and 

 fresh water shells also highly accept'e. 

 I will be happy to send you the names 

 should you wish it. Your salt marsh 

 caterpillar is cert'y the B. acria F. and 

 it is fig'd by Drury and also by Cramer 

 under the name of B. caprotina. 



a little curious how many entomologists have 

 held the position of librarian in the public 

 institutions of this country. 



We deeply regret to announce the death, 

 on February 25, of Mr. Holmes Hinkley of 

 Cambridge, one of the active members of the 

 Club and an ardent student of our Lepidop- 

 tera. 



