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hand, are still in the New York State Museum at Albany, the 

 specimens bearing likewise the original labels and numbers of 

 Dr. Fitch. In the case of the family Membracidse there are 

 specimens of the same species collected and determined by Dr. 

 Fitch in both the National Museum and in the N. Y. State 

 Museum and there seems to be some dispute as to the validity of 

 the types in both museums. 



In 1893 Dr. F. W. Coding pubhshed in the Canadian Ento- 

 mologist (Vol. XXV, No. 7, 171-172 pp.. No. 8, 196 p.) under 

 the title " Fitch's Types of N. A. Membracidse " a review of 

 those specimens in the collection at Washington which he con- 

 sidered as the types. It happens, however, that specimens of 

 most of these same species, also from Fitch material, are in the 

 Albany collection where they are also considered as types, and 

 some of these differ materially from the specimens studied by 

 Dr. Coding. 



Through the courtesy of Dr. J. C. Crawford and Mr. Otto 

 Heidemann, of the National Museum, and of Dr. E. P. Felt, of 

 the New York State Museum, I have been permitted to examine 

 the specimens under discussion in both museums and have care- 

 fully compared both sets of material with the original descriptions 

 of Dr. Fitch. Dr. Felt and Mr. Heidemann have both also very 

 kindly furnished me with considerable data on the subject which 

 tends to show that the material in the National Museum is not 

 all type material and that the location of the type specimens has 

 not been hitherto established. 



The specimens found in the two collections with their respec- 

 tive numbers are as follows : 



Specimen Number 

 Species Albany. Washington. 



Smilia castanecc 669, 670, 671 497^ 



Smilia querci 672, 673 6931 



Smilia guttata 674, 675 



Smilia auriculata 676 875 



Cyrtosia fenestrata 678 6234 



Telamona unicolor 684 1800 



Telamona fasciata 685 14496 



Telamona concava 686 2133 



Telamona fagi 687 9844 



Telamona tristis 689 102 



Telamona coryli 690 



