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mens bear the large, well-known Fitch label written in his own 

 handwriting. These are Nos. 4416 (Thelia cratccgi) and 875 

 {Thelia aitriculata) . None are marked in any way which would 

 suggest that they were considered as types by the author, and 

 the specimens differ in many respects from the original de- 

 scriptions. 



The specimens in the New York State Museum, on the other 

 hand, are in a special case which bears the following label printed 

 by pen by Dr. Lintner and subsequently acknowledged as his 

 own to Dr. Felt : 



HOMOPTERA. 



Arranged by Dr. Fitch in 1850; Transferred to this Case in 1879. 



Contains 54 species and 5 subspecies of types of Dr.. Fitch. 



See Fourth Report of N. Y. State Cab. N. H., pp. 43-69. 



The insects in this box have evidently been prepared for a special 

 exhibit and are carefully labeled by means of printed strips above 

 the pins and printed specimen labels with names and numbers on 

 the pins. The family names are on green paper, the generic 

 names on orange and the specific names on white. The specimen 

 label bears two lines, the first containing the popular name in 

 plain type and the second the scientific name in italics. Each 

 specimen bears also a printed number which corresponds to that 

 in the Fourth Report. It was at first thought that these labels 

 might have been cut from the pages of the original publication 

 but comparison proves that this is not the case. The type is of a 

 different font and the arrangement of words is not identical. 

 Regarding this point Dr. Felt has kindly furnished me with an 

 excerpt from a letter from Dr. Fitch dated January 31, 1850, and 

 addressed to a dear friend, Dr. George F. Horton, as follows : 



" Christmas eve . . found me in Albany, putting up a suite of specimens 

 of our Homopterous insects, (the old Linnaean genera Cicada, Fulgora, 

 Tettigonia and Aphis) for the State Cabinet of Natural History. Of 

 these I have gathered and made out 130 species, embracing 300 sexual and 

 other varieties. Oh but one short week ago I was very busy, very tired, 

 and very, very anxious to finish my job and get back to my own quiet, 

 comfortable home. And Christmas day was anything but a holiday to me; 

 and I felt like uttering maledictions upon the printers, because they would 

 not work enough that day to finish my labels." 



This excerpt clearly refers to the list of Homoptera prepared for 



