402 | [SepremBER, 
139. CaPpriMULGUS VocIFERUS, Bon. 
Common upon our dry oak lands, rarely seen or heard elsewhere. 
140. CaprimuLeus VIRGINIANUS, Briss. 
Common. 
141. Cotumpa Carorinensis, Linn. 
Common. 
142. CotumpBa micRratToria, Linn. ; 
Two years ago last spring I noticed the pigeons in vast numbers, in the fields, 
feeding upon the dead grasshoppers, the remains of the countless horde which 
well nigh devoured “ every green thing’? during the preceding summer and fall. 
143. MreLeacris GALLopavo, Linn. 
Still common. 
144. Ortyx Vireéiniana, Steph. 
Abundant. 
145. Terrao umMBELLUS, Linn. 
Common in particular localities of limited extent. 
(To be continwed.) 
The Committee on Major Le Conte’s description of a new Pacane 
Nut, reported in favor of publication in the Proceedings. 
Description of a new species of the Pacaine Nut. 
By Joun Le Conte. 
This species of Hickorea, which [ found cultivated in Georgia, is a native of 
the State of Texas. The small altitude which it attains, the later period of its 
foliation, and the very different form of the nut, readily distinguish it from every 
other hitherto described. I have adopted Mr. Rafinesque’s name, Hickorea, for 
the genus, in preference to Mr. Nuttall’s Carya, on the ground of priority. What- 
ever may have been the errors or aberrations of Rafinesque, Nuttall was not 
justified in changing a name proposed by the former, years before any publication 
of his own. 
HickxorEa TEXANA.—Tree about ten feet high. Leaves 13 inches long, fre- 
quently rather over than under this measurement, composed. of 6 or 7 pairs of 
leaflets, scarcely petiolated, with a terminal odd one ona rather long petiole ; 
leaflets lanceolate acuminate, the lower ones more convex on the upper than the 
lower edge, dentate on the upper edge from about one third the distance from 
the base; the lower edge is always most entire, except a few small teeth near 
the point. The terminal leaflet is dentate on both edges, but not near the base ; 
nut somewhat ovate, pointed at the upper. extremity, less so at the lower, flat- 
tened, somewhat rough, and slightly angled; i-4 inch long, 1 inch broad. 
Differs from H. oliveformis or common 
Pacane nut, in being a much smaller tree, 
* seldom being more than 10 or 12 feet high, 
whilst the other frequently reaches to 80 or 
90 feet; in the smaller size of the leaves, 
\ which rarely exceed 14 inches in Jength, the 
may leaflets being 4 or 5 inches long, whilst the 
uy H. oliveformis has the leaves from 19 to 20 
HH 6«inches long and the leaflets 7 inches; but 
most peculiarly in the shape of the nut ; this, 
in our species, is ovate, flattened, although 
protuberant on the sides and rough;-.in the 
other very smooth, cylindrical, pointed at 
each end. The leaves of the H. oliveformis 
ET ieee aaa eee are fully formed before this species shows 
means mat sees’ the least sign of foliation. 
