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Vol. X July, 1915 No. 3 



TYPES OF FITCH'S SPECIES OF MEMBRACID^. 



By W. D. Funkhouser. 



(Contribution from the Entomological Laboratory of Cornell University.) 



Eighteen species of North American Membracidse were de- 

 scribed by Dr. Asa Fitch, of which six have been reduced to 

 synonymy by later students. Of the remaining twelve species, 

 seven have been placed in other genera than those designated by 

 the author while the other five stand as described. Sixteen of 

 these species were described in the Fourth Annual Report of the 

 Regents of the University of the State of New York on the 

 State Cabinet of Natural History, Albany, February 22, 1851, 

 under the title " Catalogue with References and Descriptions of 

 the Insects Collected and Arranged for the State Cabinet of 

 Natural History. By Asa Fitch, ]\LD." The other two were 

 described in the Third Report of the Insects of New York in the 

 Transactions of the Agricultural Society in 1856. 



On accoimt of the fact that in recent years a large number of 

 new forms of the species of the family have been described, and 

 because some of these must be compared with Fitch's types before 

 their validity can be estabHshed, it is of much importance that the 

 type specimens of Fitch's species be located if possible. 



After the Fitch collection had been broken vip and parts sold 

 to various collectors, the balance was purchased by the U. S. 

 National Museum and is now a part of the collection at that 

 institution. The specimens are numbered and the numbers cor- 

 respond to those in Dr. Fitch's notebooks. Two of these note- 

 books (of the families Psyllidse and Aphididas) are now in the 

 National Museum. Parts of the Fitch collection, on the other 



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