;■*«. 



518 Priocera pusilla. 



lion with each other. Having no opportunity of consulting Knoch, 

 I know not whether he has giyen a detailed description of his 

 specieSj or whether it is really synonymous with this. 



Priocera. Kirby.* 



Pi/SiLLA. P. suhvillosa rufa: elytris punctato-striatis apice Icevi- 



bus ; utroque fascia nigricanti punctisque duobus Jlavis. 



Long. Corp. Lin. 2f. 



Regio. America Septentrionalis? Ex Mus. T>. FrancWlon. 



Descr. Structura et Habitus P. variegatt, sed multoties minor, 

 et tota rufa, capite prothoraceque rubescentibus. Elytra 

 punctato-striata apice laevia. Fascia irregularis nigro-picea, 

 et puncta duo ilava in medio oblique ordinata elytrum utrum- 

 que signant. Tarsorum pulvilli subinvoluti. 



Art. LX. Additions and Corrections to Mr. Vigobs's 

 Sketches in Zoologi/. 



Vol. I. p. 313. — " Stirpes.''^ This term, which I at first used 

 as designating the immediately subordinate subdivisions of a family, 

 had been previously employed by Mr. MacLeay, as representing a 

 group of higher value than that of a family. I have consequently 

 altered the term, in my subsequent sketches, into that of Sub- 

 family. The Stirpes therefore of the Falconidce should be con- 

 sidered the subfamilies of that group. 



Vol. I. p. 327. — *' Genus Harpagus.''^ — The general want of 

 communication between the naturalists of this country and those 

 of the continent, has given rise to the multiplication of synonyms, 

 not merely in the case of species, but in that of groups. Em- 

 ployed at the same time upon the same subjects, it is almost 

 impossible that we can steer clear of each other's researches 

 in this respect : and unfortunately it is not always in our power 

 to determine the priority of the names thus respectively cwn- 



* Linn. Trans, xii. 389, 392. Plate xxi. fig. 7. 



