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Hvd rocampa Nymphseulis, 
Botys pandalis, 
„ flavalis, 
,, Lyalinalis, 
„ lancealis, 
„ fuscalis, 
Mecyna asinalis, 
Ebulea Verbascalis, 
Pionea stramentalis, 
*Spilodes cinctalis, 
Scopula alpinalis, 
„ etialis, 
„ ferrugalis, 
„ decrepilalis. 
In the above list the names used are 
those in Doubleday’s Catalogue. — H. T. 
Stainton ; March 1. 
ENTOMOLOGY IN AMERICA. 
TO THE EDITOR OE THE ‘INTELLI- 
GENCER.’ 
Baltimore, Maryland, 
Feb. 6, 1858. 
Sir, — We have for several years been 
acquainted with some of your ento- 
mological publications, particularly the 
‘Annual,’ and we have been struck with 
your zeal in promoting the study of 
Entomology. 
Our correspondence with European 
entomologists has hitherto been confined 
to some on the Continent, paiticulurly 
Germany, with whose works we are more 
familiar than with those of English 
authors, though the latter are far from 
being unknown to us. 
You are aware that, though a good 
deal has been done towards illustrating 
our insects, a vast field yet remains un- 
cultivated. Entomology, as a Science, 
has as yet few labourers, though Mels- 
heimer, Say, Leconte, Harris, Fitch and 
some others have described thousands of 
our insects, and every year adds to the 
number of collaborators in this interesting 
pursuit. We have as yet no such syste- 
matic works on any of the orders as you 
Englishmen can boast of, and as the sale 
of such works is so inconsiderable, a long 
time will elapse before any entomologist 
among us can venture to publish one. 
There is abundant material wrought out, 
but no one can afford to print on his own 
responsibility, and hence our writers must 
content themselves with giving the re- 
sults of their labours through the medium 
of our scientific magazines. 
Very little has as yet been done in the 
orders Neuroptera, Hemiptera and Micro- 
Lepidoptera, beyond the species described 
by the older European writers, and it is 
to these orders especially that a few of 
us are directing our attention. Though, 
as we said before, we possess the principal 
works on those orders (excepting your 
‘ Tineina,’ which we have just ordered) 
and large collections of species, yet we 
think that the possession of generic types 
would greatly facilitate our labours. 
One of our designs iu writing to you 
now is, to ascertain whether you or any 
of your numerous entomological friends 
would furnish us with such specimens, 
viz. Hemiptera, Orthoptera, Neuroptera 
and Micro-Lepidoptera. We promise to 
make equivalent returns of whatever you 
may desire, and which it is in our power 
to furnish, or, if you wish it, we will send 
a box iu advance. 
We want a correspondent who w ill take 
the pains to clear up some difficulties 
which we have encountered. To give 
you an idea of what we mean, allow us 
to state that Fidicina libicea, L., is said 
by some authors to occur in South 
America, by others iu North America j 
Walker’s British Museum Catalogue 
‘ Homoptera,’ p. 94, gives it as found in 
“N. America and Massachusetts” (which 
is equivalent to England and Yorkshire). 
Fie reduces Say’s pruinosa with a ? to 
a synonyme, but quotes Merian and 
Brown’s ‘Jamaica’ for it. Afterwards 
he gives pruinosa , S., as a distinct spe- 
