September 1S91.] 



PSYCHE. 



141 



for it in vain in Fabr. & Herbst. Prof. 

 Peck's name may therefore probably be 

 retained. 



Although much of Herbst's great 

 work was publ'd long before the Syst. 

 Eleut. yet it contains a great many 

 desc's not noticed by Fabr. 



I am very happy to find that I have 

 not publ'd the Stenocortts tridens ; 

 after much search I discovered the 

 desc'n of the insect amongst my rejected 

 Mss. with the following note sub- 

 scribed "It is probable that this is the 

 villosiis Fabr. as it agrees very well 

 with his short desc'n." I do not think 

 I have seen any insect that agrees better 

 with the bidens Fabr. than this spe- 

 cies, but he attributes to that sp. 2 

 spines to the extremity of each joint of 

 the antennas. It may be different from 

 both, in which case Prof. Peck's name 

 of putator must of course be retained. 



Your /Egeria fulvicornis, is, I think 

 new ; it is certainly a charming and cu- 

 rious insect. I cannot determine 

 whether the Cicindela be new or only a 

 variety, but I am inclined to the opin- 

 ion that it is new. I have no unpub- 

 lished description of a Cicindela. 



I agree with you perfectly with re- 

 spect to latin specific definitions ; I do 

 not see the necessity of thus using that 

 language in preference to the French, 

 German or English languages, for I 

 believe that almost every naturalist of 



any distinction can read a description in 

 either. If any part is to be latinized I 

 conceive it ought to be the history 

 which is always the most difficult to 

 read in a foreign language. 



The following is a list of the insects 

 contained in the first box, carefully 

 compared with descriptions of authors, 

 with my Mss. descr's & with the speci- 

 mens in my cabinet. [The list is not 

 given.] The contents of the second 

 box I have not yet had time to' examine 

 & compare, but I will attend to them 

 as early as possible. 



A new genus has recently been made 

 by Dejean for the Stenocorus cyaneus 

 Fabr. under the name of Des?nocerus. 

 It could not be referred to the g's Har- 

 gium of Leach, which is not adopted 

 by subsequent writers. 



I regret my inability to give you any 

 information relative to the larvae you 

 mention, my opportunity of becoming 

 acquainted with the changes of insects 

 is at pi'esent very limited. 



You mention having sent some 

 Marine shells, but I have only received 

 those that are attached to the lid of one 

 of the boxes, & they are all fresh water ; 

 I therefore suppose that there was a 

 package that I have, unfortunately, not 

 received. 



Xenos peckli is common here; but I 

 have not seen any other species of the 

 genus or of Stylops. 



