382 General Notes. — [April, - 
by Thomas Meehan in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences, Philadelphia, December 1. The tree bearing these 
anomalous seeds is of considerable age, and stands near German- 
town, Pa. A neatly printed Catalogue of the Phanogamous 
and vascular cryptogamous plants of Fitchburg [Mass.] and 
vicinity is worthy of note as being “the work of students of the 
Fitchburg high school.” It is said to represent “about seven 
years of diligent research.” It is a very creditable production, 
and indicates good work in the school. The Fourth Annual 
Report of the Board of Control of the New York Agricultural 
Experiment Station, for the year 1885, appears with a most 
satisfactory promptness. Its contents show the continuation of 
the high class of work for which this station has been distin- 
guished. E. W. D. Holway, of Decorah, Iowa, has made out 
a set of genus labels of the fungi for use in herbaria. There are 
about 720 names, which represent, after deducting duplicates, 
oa from 500 to 600 different genera. The printing is done by 1. 
Patterson, of Oquawka, Ills., which is a sufficient guarantee of the 
neatness of the typography. 
ENTOMOLOGY. 
L On THE Cinurous THYSANURA AND SYMPHYLA OF MEXICcO.— 
It was my good fortune during a short visit to Mexico in 
the spring of 1885, to discover the one insect which I 
scarcely hoped to find, so rare are the species and individuals 
in other parts of the world. This was ẸJapyx saussurit, described 
and figured by Humbert in Revue et Mag. de - Zoölogie, XX, 
= there, at all; though near Vienna 3apyx solifugus occurs in dry, 
sandy places, where, in 1872, I had the rare pleasure of observing 
it under the kind guidance of Dr. Brauer. The Cinuran charac- 
_ teristic of the terra templada is a species of Machilis, which was 
= common under stones at Saltillo. Bis 
At Cordova, however, owing to the kindness of a Spanish gen- 
__ theman, the owner of a coffee plantation, who allowed me the use 
-of one of his laborers, an intelligent Indian, I found about a dozen 
specimens of Fapyx saussurii, in the shaded damp coffee growth, 
which my Indian turned up with his hoe from the rich, black soil 
„under fallen banana trunks and loose stones. They seemed to be 
comparatively common, and very active in their movements. 
_ On comparing with it our northern F. sudterraneus Pack., from 
= Kentucky, our species is seen to differ decidedly from the Mexi- 
_ can in the much squarer head, which is broader in front; 1" the 
_ broader prothorax, and especially in the longer and narro 
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tenth abdominal segment. It also differs in the denticulations of 
