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the r\?Ln\eforpticarms, and as Laferte's species is the more recent 

 it may be known by the name viyrmecoides. 



Some of Mr. Casey's remarks under floralis seem a Httle ne- 

 phelic. He states that the American form is the true floralis of 

 Linne, ' ' but quite possible that it [the American form] may be 

 different from the Anthtcus floralis of European authors." If 

 he means that he has not seen the European _/?icra/z>, which seems 

 the more obvious interpretation, he may rest assured that they 

 are identical, as I have made the comparison more than once. 



Lepyrus colon Linn. = palustris Scop, (an older name). In 

 the Notices cited, Mr. Casey strikes this species from the Amer- 

 ican list for scarcely any other reason, if he is rightly understood, 

 than that he has never seen an Anierican example. This will 

 scarcely be accepted as a scientific procedure, and that Mr. Casey 

 should have resorted to this method of getting rid of an Europeo- 

 American species is only to be understood in connection with his 

 often expressed unwillingness to admit the identity of European 

 and eastern American forms not imported. 



Lepyrus coloji whs considered by Mr. Kirby, Schoenherr and 

 others, as well as Dr. LeConte, to be common to the two hemis- 

 pheres, and it can scarcely be doubted that they all saw examples 

 from both countries and knew what they did see; yet Mr. Casey 

 consigns into synonymy with a single sweep of the pen all their 

 determinations, for the reason that he had not seen an American 

 example, therefore they had not. Mr. Casey does not verify his 

 assertion by any examination of a type: some of Kirby' s are 

 probably extant yet in the British Museum, while some of Dr. 

 LeConte' s as determined for the Canadian Explorations and Sur- 

 veys, are deposited according to Mr. Harrington, in the Museum 

 of the Natural History Society of Montreal. Mr. Casey's " hy- 

 pothesis," as he styles his reasons for uniting the colo7i of the 

 above mentioned authors with ^^ifwzwa/z^j- Say, cannot be accepted. 



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