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Telamona qticrci 691, 692 3109 



Telamona rccUvata 693 5979 



Thelia cratccgi 697 4416 



Tragopa dorsalis 698, 699 133, 138, 139, 3659 



Uroxiphtis carycc 700, 701 



Ccresa taurina 3668 



Ceresa hrcvicornis 1875 



Students of the family will at once note that the first sixteen 

 of the species numbered in the Albany collection bear numbers 

 which correspond exactly with those given to the specimens of 

 the species described in the Fourth Report. 



Dr. Fitch unfortunately did not always designate type speci- 

 mens as such. Mr. Heidemann quotes Air. E. A. Schwarz, who 

 purchased a part of the Fitch collection years ago, as stating that 

 those specimens which carry a number in red ink and marked 

 2uith a red line across the label are the true types. This method 

 of designation, however, does not appear to have been followed 

 in the collection of Homopterous insects, and from other material 

 of Fitch's which has been examined it appears that this type of 

 label was occasionally used for specimens clearly not type. On 

 the same subject Dr. Felt has kindly allowed me to quote from 

 a letter dated December 18, 1900, from Dr. Fitch's daughter, 

 Mrs. M. F. Andrews, of Marshalltown, Iowa, as follows : 



" I do not think Father ever used the word ' type,' but a character in- 

 stead, or [T]. I know there were some of his types in the collections . . . 

 and also that some of them were destroyed. . . ." 



Also under date of January 11, 1901 : 



" The numbers refer to a registry and description in a manuscript cata- 

 logue. Small insects were attached to triangles of paper, on pins, with 

 numbers beneath. . . . The capital [T] of course was for type." 



The type label as above described has. likewise, not been found 

 on any of the insects examined. 



The specimens in the National Museum bear various labels of 

 which one in each instance bears a number in red ink presumably 

 written by Dr. Fitch himself and evidently referring to his notes. 

 The other labels, according to Mr. Heidemann, were written by 

 the late Dr. Ashmead who endeavored to designate Fitch's types 

 from the original descriptions and entered these names in the 

 type book of the National Museum. Only two of these speci- 



