38 Note on Capt. Le Conte's Paper. 



conformation may be compared to that of the termination 

 of the tail of some Colubers. 



The Agama described in page 299 et seq. if not the Or- 

 bicularis, Linn, is I think the Tapayaxin of Hernandez;' 

 the figure which the latter author has given of it, though by 

 no means an accurate representation of its characters, cer- 

 tainly indicates this species as decidedly as the other figures 

 of the same work indicate the animals for which they were 

 intended. The late Professor Barton was decidedly of this 

 opinion, notwithstanding the greater length of the tail in the 

 figure, and in his Medical and Physical Journal for the year 

 1806, he applied the specific name of Tapayaxin to the 

 very individual represented in Mr. Ord's excellent plate. 

 Whatever therefore may be the question relative to its 

 identity with the Agama figured by Hernandez, and that, 

 of Clavigero, no one can hesitate to admit that the name se- 

 lected by Dr. Barton has the priority, and consequently, 

 bad as it is, the exclusive right. 



* This opinion is strengthened, if not confirmed, by a letter recently 

 received by Dr. Hays, from a gentleman in Mexico, to whom he sent the 

 engraving and account of the animal, published in the Journal of the 

 Academy, and who writes that the animals are quite common in the im- 

 mediate neighbourhood of that city. — Pub. Com. 



Note on Capt. Le Conte's paper on " New Coleopterous 

 Insects of North America" published in the first vo- 

 lume of the Annals of the Lyceum of Natitral History 

 of New York. By Thomas Say. Read April 23, 1S27. 



Colaspis infuscata, Le C. is the C. quadrinotata — See 

 Journal of the Acad. Nat. Sc. P. vol. iii. p. 444. 



Anthicus murinipennis, Le C. is the A. bicolor — See 

 American Entymology, vol. i. pi. x. It is very closely 

 allied to Notoxxis scrricornis of Panzer, No. 31. 



