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DAVENPORT ACAOKMY OF NATURAL SCTENTES. 



a specimen of Galeodes (probably G. pallipes Sayi from Denver. Colorado, 

 with some remarks on its habits. This is the only other record of the 

 occurrence of this species I have been able to find. 



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FIG. 1. GALEODES PALLIPES, Say 



LTwice nHtiiral size.] 



Mr. Butler, of the British Museum, has published in the Transactions 

 of the Entomological Society of London for 1873, a " List of the species 

 of Galeoclides." in which fifty-two species are enumerated, under five 

 genera, but not a species from the United States. Of the eighteen spe- 

 cies of Galeodes proper not one is from the American continent, but it is 

 not improbable that our species may prove to belong to the genus Gluvia, 

 of which several species are recorded from Mexico and the West Indies. 

 Say's descriptions have been entirely overlooked. 



It is probable that, besides these two. there are three or four other spe- 

 cies found in this country, as specimens seen from Florida, California, 

 and Arizona, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, and 

 in that of the Boston Society of Natural History would seem to indicate. 

 I hope sometime to give a more detailed account of this interesting 

 group of animals. 



;i«ince making tlic above remarks, I have liad an opportunity of examining other specimen.^ 

 of both species, contained in the collection of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences- 

 and have received from Rev. H. C. McCook, a specimen of O. subulnia, collected by Capt. Bun, 

 in Wyoming. Although bearing some superficial resemblance to each other, these two species 

 must probably be referred to different genera — r,'. pallipee being a true Galeodes, and G. sub- 

 ulata probably a species of Gluvia. A more detailed description, with illustrations, is in prep- 

 aration for publication in these Proceedings. The accompanying woodcut of Ga/eodes patlipes 

 Say, Cenlar>;ed to twice the natural size,j will serve to give an idea of the general appearance of 

 these peculiar animals. ./, D. P . March 15<A, 1877. 1 



It was decided to hold the meetings of the Section every Sat- 

 urdav- afternoon during the winter, whenever practicable. 



