BULLETIN No. 8. 



In the preparation of the paper on The Food of Birds in this Bulletin, 

 Uhler's ''List of Hemiptera West of the Mississippi River" (1876) was followed 

 with respect to the arrangement of the species mentioned; but through an un- 

 fca-tunate misunderstanding of the intention of the author of that list, the Pen- 

 tatomidte were all included under the Cydnida-. For the latter name, the for- 

 mer should consequently be substituted, as follows: 



Page 90, line 3 from bottom; page 92, line 11 from bottom; page 94, line 

 5, and line 5 from bottom; page 105, line 5 from bottom; page 108, line 13 

 from bottom; page 117, line 9 from bottom; page 126, line 14 from bottom; 

 page 130, line 16; page 131, line 7 from bottom; page 132, line 13; page 138, 

 lines 16 and 24; page 139, line 10; page 141, last line; page 143, line 2; page 

 145, line 5; page 148, line 12 from bottom. 



BULLETIN No. 5. 



Page 6. After description following Family PROTEIDJ*: read: 

 Genus Necturus, Raf. 



3. .V, lateralis, (Say) Bd, Mud Puppy. Above brownish, with darker sub- 

 circular spots; generally a dark stripe from snout back to eyes. A more or less 

 distinct lateral band in young. Below dusky. Large, bushy, bright red gills, 

 forming three tufts on each side of head. Head depressed; snout truncated; 

 gular fold well developed; tail much compressed. U3 feet. Eastern region, 

 except New England and Eastern Middle States, and from a few points in Aus- 

 troriparian. 



4. N.puncfaf lis, iCnhhes) CoY>e. Above nearly uniform dark olive, with 

 numerous small orange or yellowish dots irregularly distributed over the whole 

 surface, and large, dark, ill-defined spots at distant intervals. No lateral band. 

 Beneath pale flesh color. Smaller and more slender than the preceding species. 

 Eastern S. Carolina. 



Page 18. Before Firmisternia and ARciFEKA,for Order read Sub-order, 

 Page 22. Before Raniformia, for Order read Sub-order. 



BULLETIN No. (5. 



Page 6, line 12 from bottom; page 8, line 15; page 11, line 2; for C>/<lni- 

 fla' read Pentatomidie. 



Page 17, line 9, before Vireo omit and. 



Page 23, above Arachnida, for Ci/dnidce read Peiitatomidn'. 



Pages 25 and 27, above Orthopfera, for Cydnido' read Pentatomidu'. 



Page 28, lines 2 and 8, for GrapJioyhhnis vadosus read Epicmrus imbricatus. 



Page 64, under Hemiptera, for Sij)hono2Jhora granarice read Aphis maidis. 



Page 69, line 5 from bottom, ior fresh-water read local. 



Page 78, line 1, after all insert the. 



Page 82, line 7, for character read characters. 



Page 91, line 5, for consisted read consists. 



Page 92, line 2 from bottom, for more read most. 



Page 97, line 11, for forij-six read forfi/-si.r. 



Page 99, line 2, for wifn read with. 



Page 101, lines 12 and 13 from bottom, for structure read structures. 



Page 105, line 23, for aeration read aeration. 



