THE SOLPUGID^ OF AMERICA PUTN'AM. 373 



In the Museum of the Boston Society I saw one specimen of a much 

 larger species from Arizona, and Mr. Emerton stated he had two or three in 

 his collection. 



In the Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Mr. McCook showed 

 me a specimen labeled Galeodes subulnta, collected by Marcy's Expedition to 

 Red River. TJiis is the specimen described by Girard in the report of that 

 expedition, Washington, 1852. It is quite different from G. pallipes, and 

 from any other species I have seen. Besides this there were several other 

 smaller specimens without labels of any kind. 



At Washington, Dr. Foreman, of the Smithsonian Institution, gave me a 

 poorly preserved pinned specimen from Mexico. 



This list is all the specimens I know of in the country. It is sufficient, 

 however, to show that besides the two species described by Say, there are 

 several others. It remains, however, to be shown that some of these were 

 described by Koch and others, from Mexico and the West Indies. 



So much for the specimens. The following are all the references to 

 United States sj^ecies I have been able to find : 



Say, in "Account of an Exi)edition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains 

 in 1819, 1830, under Major S. II. Long," by Edwin James, two Vols., 8vo., 

 Philadelphia, 1823, describes G. palUpes and G. stthulata in a foot-note on 

 page 3 of Vol. II. 



The same work, 3 Vols., 8vo., London, 1823. 



{G. pallipeH and G. suhiilata are described in a note in Vol. II, page 343.) 



Girard, in " Report of Marcy's Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana 

 in 1853," Washington, 1854, describes G. suhulatn from a single specimen. 



I have seen three editions of this work, all bearing the same date, but 

 paged differentlj'. 



Packard, in his "Guide to the Study of Insects," page 255, mentions that 

 "»S'. (Galeodes) Americana, Say, inhabits the Southern States." 



( I have not been able to find any other reference to this species, and think 

 it must be a mistake.) 



In " Proceedings of x\-cademy of Natural Sciences," Philadelphia, Nov. 

 7th, 1871, " Prof. Cope exhibited a specimen of Galeodes, probably G.pallipes." 



I shall be very glad to learn of any additions to this list, and for any other 

 help or advice you can give. I should like very much to be able to examine 

 more carefully those specimens in your charge, and if you will send them 

 to me I will promptly return them in good order. 



Letter to Rev. H. C. McCook, Philadelphia: 



Davenport, February 26th, 1877. 

 * * I was much pleased last Friday to receive the box of Solpugidm, 

 which arrived in good order. The Marcy specimen of Galeodes suhulata was 

 in pieces, but I believe it was so when I first saw it, last October. It evL 

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