Reply to Br. Harlan's Note. 39 



Molorchus affinis, Le C. is the M. bimaculatus — See 

 Journal Acad. Nat. Sc. P. vol. iii. p. 428. 



Chrvsomela scalaris, Le C. may possibly prove to be 

 the C. decipiens of Weber, p. 52, notwithstanding Weber's 

 description of the suture, which he says is "brunneus"; a 

 specimen in my collection* has a tinge of that colour, and 

 another has a slight appearance of the lateral thoracic in- 

 dentations, which Weber attributes to his species. At any 

 rate, I referred the species to that description until another 

 insect could be found better adapted to it. 



There can be no doubt respecting priority in relation to 

 the above names. 



Reply to a Note in Harlan's Synopsis of American Rep- 

 tiles. By Jacob Green, A. M. Prof, of Chem. in Jeff. 

 Med. College. Read May 14, 1827. 



Dr. Harlan in his Synopsis of North American Reptiles, 

 published in a separate form, and also in the Jour. Acad. 

 Nat. Sc. vols. v. vi. states that in a paper published in the 

 " Contributions of the Maclurian Lyceum," I have descri- 

 bed two animals as new which were before known to Na- 

 turalists. In a note to his Catalogue, &c. he remarks, " the 

 Salamandra intermixta of this author is identical with the 

 species previously known to naturalists as the S. picta" — 

 Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil. vol. v. June, 1825 — Idem of this 

 Synopsis, p. 333, (read p. 17.) In turning to the June No. 

 of the Journal above referred to, I find no notice of the S. 

 picta, but in the December No. it is mentioned.* Now as 

 I published an account of this animal in the Port Folio some 

 months before this, if Dr. H. would invert the paragraph 



• I am informed that by the reference to the Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc. 

 June, that Dr. II. intended to notice merely the date when his paper 

 was read. 



