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service seems to be to direct the colourers I intend to send you 

 an impression of each plate coll^ is they are produced 



I have a great many remarks to make on Insects in my pos- 

 session either rec^ from your Father or of mj- own collection 

 with which I shall trouble you in future communications in 

 the mean time those contained in this letter are respectfully 

 submitted to 3'our consideration and decision 



I remain Affectionately 



Your Obdt Ser\'t 



Thomas Say 



N. B. I had forgotten to say that there is also in the box a 

 Cicindela which as it is not found in the immediate vicinity' of 

 this City I thought it might be rare with you — I found it in 

 great plenty on the sea shore two or three j^ears ago & have 



met with it in sandy parts of the Jerseys 



T. S. 



I cannot see Latreille's reason for altering the Fabrician 

 Genus Geotrupes it appears according to him that the true 

 Fabrician Scarabsei such as 3'our 14, 15, 16 are Geotrupes — & 

 of the Fabrician Geotrupes he makes Scarabsei, is this owing 

 to caprice, or is it to puzzle the student, I feel strongly inclined 

 to adhere in this instance to Fab : 



I would thank you to let me know the title of the book in 

 which Professor Knock ' describes all those Insects marked K 

 in your Catalogue 



Over the Range in a Wagon. 

 By Prof, and Mrs. A. J. Snyder. 



(Continued from page 113, Vol. XII.) 



On the way down from the Pass the insect fauna soon changed. 

 We saw more large Argytniis, Colias and Lyavna. The road lay 

 through almost interminable pine forests, and gradually de- 

 scended until finally we came out into Middle Park. This por- 

 tion of country for a few miles was park-like, but of the 

 remainder the name seemed a misnomer. After passing ' ' Idle- 

 wild," where we saw fine skins of a mountain lion and a huge 

 bear, we passed Fraser P. O. and store, and then the road for 



» Knoch.— W. J. F. 



