PSYCHE. 



SOME OLD CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN HARRIS, SAY AND 



PICKERING.— III. 



[HARRIS TO SAY.] 



Milton (Mass.) Nov'r 18, 1824. 



To Thomas Say, Esq. 

 Dear Sir, 



I have waited until 

 this for a private conveyance of the 

 box of insects which accompanies this 

 letter. 



The numbers of your Journal which 

 I have received have afforded me much 

 gratification, particularly the papers by 

 yourself and those by Mr. Charles Bon- 

 aparte. From your descriptions I have 

 already recognized several of my insects, 

 & probably shall more when I can find 

 leisure to examine them. The last 

 number of the Journal wh. I have re- 

 ceived is that for August ; & I shall be 

 glad to have any numbers that have 

 since appeared sent me by the gentle- 

 man to whom I have entrusted this 

 letter & box. I have requested Mr. 

 Fuller to procure for me the first vol- 

 ume of your American Entomology, 

 from which I anticipate much informa- 

 tion & pleasure. If the work is pub- 

 lished by subscription I should be happy 

 to use my endeavours to procure sub- 

 scribers for you. 



I am completely at a loss for the de- 

 scription of that zveevil which, in your 

 letter of the 26th May, you call the 



pinastri of Fabricius. The same spe- 

 cific name occurs in Melsheimer's cata- 

 logue ; but I find no species by that 

 name in the works of Fabricius which I 

 possess : These are his Entomologia 

 Systematica, 5 vols. 1792-179S ; & his 

 Systema Eleutheratorum, S. Rhyn- 

 gotorum, S. Piezatorum, & S. Antli- 

 atoru??i, 5 vols. 1S01-1S05. Neither 

 does the specific name pinastri occur 

 in Gftielin's Linne. 



Curc2ilio Nenuphar Herbst I do not 

 find in Fabr. or Gmelin, & have not 

 access to the work of Herbst. 



I must thank you to refer me to the 

 number of the Journal Acad. Nat. Sc. 

 in which your description of Stenoco- 

 rus tridens is to be found. 



Last September I was so fortunate as 

 to discover the male of that species of 

 Aegeria of which [ sent you the female 

 in the spring, & to wh. I gave the name 

 oifulvicornis, in a former letter. After 

 repeating my definition of the species I 

 will, agreeably to your request, add the 

 characters of the male. Aegeria (ful- 

 vicornis) brunnea, alis posticis hyali- 

 nis ; margine postico, stigmateque cos- 

 tali fuliginoso ; antennis tarsisque fulvis, 

 abdomine barbato. Mas minor, alis 

 anticis basi hyalinis, apice opacis;ano 

 tribarbato, barba media perlonga, fulva. 

 The most remarkable characteristic of 



