S8 Note on Capt. Le Conte^s Paper. 
conformation may be compared to that of the termination 
of the tail of some Colubers. 
The Agama described in page 299 ef seq. if not the Or- 
bicularis, Linn, is I think the Tapayaxin of Hernandez;* 
the figure which the latter author has given of it, though by 
no means an accurate representation of its characters, cer- 
tainly indicates this species as decidedly as the other figures 
of the same work indicate the animals for which they were 
intended. The late Professor Barton was decidedly of this 
opinion, notwithstanding the greater length of the tail in the 
figure, and in his Medical and Physical Journal for the year 
1806, he applied the specific name of Tapayaxin to the 
very individual represented in Mr. Ord's excellent plate. 
Whatever therefore may be the question relative to its 
identity with the Agama figured by Hernandez, and that 
of Clavigero, no one can hesitate to admit that the name se- 
lected by Dr. Barton has the priority, and consequently, 
bad as it is, the exclusive right. 
* This opinion is streng-thened, if not confirmed, by a letter recently 
received by Dr. Hays, from a gentleman in Mexico, to whom he sent the 
engraving- and account of the animal, published in the Journal of the 
Academy, and who writes that the animals are quite common in the im- 
mediate neighbourhood of that city. — Fuh. Com. 
Note on Capt. Le C outers paper on New Coleopterous 
Insects of North America, ''^ published in the first vo- 
lume of the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History 
of New York. By Thomas Say. Read April 23, 1827. 
CoLAspis infuscata, Le C. is the C. quadrinotata — See 
Journal of the Acad. Nat. Sc. P. vol. iii. p. 444. 
Anthicus murinipennis, Le C. is the A. hicolor — See 
American Entymology, vol. i. pi. x. It is very closely 
allied to Notoxus serricornis of Panzer, No. 31. 
