1901] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEV/S. Ill 



handing you two lists of numbers of Insects referring to your 

 catalogue, one of which I observed to you your Father had 

 sent me & those referred to by the other I requested you to 

 send, it was here the mistake undoubtedly occurred — I have 

 selected of those you sent 12 or 20 to replace such as were 

 injured in my cabinet & the remainder together with some 

 India Insects, I have put up to send to you but I do not know 

 any person in Baltimore to whom I could consign them 



I will make a few remarks on some of the species you sent 

 me 



I — Your N? 51 is the same with 45 ( Ammon) that your 

 father sent me it does not agree with the description of that 

 Insect. "Thorax 3-toothed &c " — with the description of 

 Janus I am unacquainted it maj- probably be that insect — the 

 thorax is certainly unarmed though it is cut down before 

 abruptly & irregularly 



2 — Anobium Pertinax differs I find sometimes very much in 

 its depth of colouring, though always brown, yet it is some- 

 times of a much lighter tint with the e^'e perfectlj^ black — this 

 maj- be a sexual difference, my lighter one is I believe a male. 



3 — The Insect your Father sent me as 294 (is perhaps the 

 296) it is larger than the Opatrum Clathratum — Black with 

 four rufous macula on the elytra — Your 294 is I have no doubt 

 the right one as it is a scarce insect & that the number is 

 marked as such in the catalogue. 



4 — 694 & 695 are verj- similar I can discover xorx little dif- 

 ference in the markings 



5 — Your 857 is black with a rufous thorax & 3 raised lines 

 on each elytron 



Your 856 is the same with your fathers 857 & his 856 is 

 entirely black 



I shall now take the liberty to send you the numbers as re- 

 ferring to your catalogue, of Insects I should be extremely 

 happy to receive — You will observe that I have disposed of 

 them particularly the first few agreeably to Latreille 



There is a copy in the library of The Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. The use of the words "your catalogue " by Say is proba- 

 bly due to inadvertence, as its author was the elder Melsheimer. — W. J. F. 



