276 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Letter to C. F. Parker, Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. : 



Davenport, Iowa, April 4th, 1878. 



* * I return to you to-daj' * * the .specimens of Galeodes which were 

 sent me for study. * * I have put each species in a separate bottle, and 

 have also put in label giving genus and species when known. With the ex- 

 ception of the Marcy specimen — Galeodes subulata, Girard — they are all un- 

 described, but the localities being unknown I have hesitated to give them 

 names. I have made drawings and memoranda of each of the species, and 

 if hereafter I learn anything more definite regarding them, I will let you 

 know. * * 



From letter to Henry Edwards : 



Davenport, Iowa, August 2d, 1878. 

 * * * * In regard to the Solpugidce, the large specimen you sent is cer- 

 tainly new. I have alcoholic specimens of the same from the Boston Soci- 

 ety and Philadelphia Academy. The small is of quite a different appear- 

 ance from G. pallipes, Say, to which it is most closely related. The Califor- 

 nia specimens I have seen (yours and one in collection of M. C. Z., Cam- 

 bridge, and Bost. Soc. N. H.) are all small and poorly preserved, but, unless 

 I find more certain evidence of their identity with G. ixillipes, I will ven- 

 ture to describe tliem as new. Mr. Behrens sent me a large specimen differ- 

 ent from any others, and from his letter I inferred that he found it near San 

 Francisco. I have examined thirteen species of the familj^ nine of which 

 are authentic North Americans; of the other four the locality is unknown. 

 Probably five of these are undescribed. * * 



From letter to Mr. Emerton : 



Davenport, Iowa, January 10th, 1879. 



* * * Last February, I received by mail a small box containing four 

 bottles of Solpugid(e. One of these, containing two specimens collected in 

 Arizona by Mr. Palmer, appeared to be from the collection of the Boston 

 Society N. H. One specimen marked S. H. Scudder, Lakin, Kansas, Sept. 1, 

 1877. One from Yucatan, and one from Costa Kica. I never received any 

 word concerning the box, and so never knew just from whence it came, but 

 some weeks before. Dr. Palmer had written to me that he had taken a num- 

 ber oi SolpugidcB from Mr. Scudder's collection up to j'ou at Salem, and that 

 you would send them to me with some specimens to be loaned from your 

 own collection. * * * The Kansas specimen from Mr. Scudder's is a young 

 2 G. pallipes, Say. The Arizona specimens are both new, though one of 

 them appears to be only a geographical form of G. jjallipea. The Yucatan 

 specimen is a ^, and very similar to two $ s of a new species which I re- 

 ceived [blank in copy — probably " from Dr. Hagen",] Cambridge — a very 

 pretty species. The specimen from Costa Rica may be G. gracilis, Koch, 

 but it is in very bad condition. * * * 



