316 PS I/'CHE. [September 1892. aside for the present, because their false views on the forms which have not been arrangement would only cause more examined by us. Meanwhile we recom- confusion than already exists. Farther mend that the possessors of types ex- ota in our work we will express our amine them in the light of our system.

JOHN WITT RANDALL. Dr. J. W. Randall who died at Rox- lays which occurred before the expedi- bury, Mass., 25 January 89z is known tion sailed he resigned. to the present generation of entomolo- Dr. Randall's scientific papers are as gists as the author of two papers de- follows: scriptive of Coleoptera from and I. Descriptions of new species of published more than fifty coleopterous insects inhabiting the state years ago in the second volume of the of Maine. Bost. journ, nat. hist., Feb. Bostot jotrnal of natural history. I838, v. 2, no. , pp. -33. John Witt Randall was born in , 2. Descriptions of new species of 13 November 1813. ttis father Dr. coleopterous insects inhabiting the state John Randall was an eminent physician of Massachusetts. Bost. journ, nat. of Boston and his mother Elizabeth hist., Feb. t838 v. 2, no. , pp. 34-52 Wells was the granddaughter of Samuel (See Proc. Bost. soc. nat. hist., Jan. Adams the revolutionary patriot. He I875, v. 7, PP" 373-385 On the spe- graduated from in cies of Coleoptera described by Mr. J. 1834. One of his classmates says: 'he W. Randall, by P. S. Sprague with displayed a marked originality of char- notes by E. P. Austin.) acter. Though among us, he was not 3. Catalogue of the Crustacea brought wholly of us, but seemed to have by Thomas Nuttall and j. K. Townsend thoughts, pursuits and aspirations to fi'om the west coast of North America which we were strangers. His tastes and the Sandwich Islands with descrip- developed in a scientific direction, en- tions of such species as are apparently tomology being the branch to whiclz he new, among which are included several devoted himself. The college at that species of different localities previously time did little to encourage such pur- existing in the collection of the Acad- suits, but he pursued the even tenor emy. Journ. acad. nat. sci. Phil., of his way till he had made a very fine x839, v. 8, pt. , pp. to6-47, pl. 3"7" collection of insects." Dr. Randall A volume on the animals and plants of studied medicine after his graduation. Maine was prepared but not published. He was offered and accepted an appoint- His volume of poems entitled Conso- ment in zoology connected with the lations of Solitude, Boston, I856 2d Wilkes exploring expedition to the edition 1857 was commended by j. H. South Seas; owing however to tlae de- Abbott in the North American review. September, i89a.] PS .T'CttE. 317

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STICTHIPPUS (KTa,'ro) subgen, nov. Head closely resembling that of Hippiscus, differs Dora all most strikingly in the with small but deep and conspicuous trian- form of the mesoster,al lobes which lie gular lateral foveolae, and between their an- at about the same distance apart as in terior extremities a distinct, depressed, transversely biareolate field; fl'ontal costa the two first, to which it is certainly sulcate above, especially about the ocellus. most nearly allied. From Leprus it Antennae rather slender, uniform through- also differs in the presence of a humeral out, about as long as head and pronotum taenia on the wings. It agrees better together in the 9, less than twice as long as with Hippiscus than with Xanthippus the pronotum in the ', apically tapering in the structure of the antennae and of only on last joint or two. Pronotum with the dorsal field nearly fiat with a slight the median carina of the pronotum, median carina which is occasionally subob- although itself very variable, and fl'om solete on the posterior part of the metazona Hippiscus it may be separated also by and normally cut only by the typical sulcus, the biareolate sunken fastigium between but sometimes slightly cut by the anterior the lateral foveolae of the face. sulcus of the prozona and more or less inter- rupted behind it, in which case there is a HIPpISCUS distinct discal scutellum, the posterior sulcus (S.)CALIFORNICUS sp. nov. of the prozona terminating in two forks, one A compact form of rather snall size. Very at the lateral borders of the discal scutellum, dull brownish fuscous, with a slight yellow- the other by deeply cutting the lateral walls ish tinge, faintly flecked or blotched with of that scutellum close to the median line; dusky spots and obscurely dotted with black, metazona distinctly longer than the prozona, the head plump and full, dark on the upper rectangulate or obtusangulate behind; sur- third, the rest dull clay yellow and nearly face scabrous, the lateral carinae obscure. free fi'om dots; summit of head nearly Tegmina as in Hippiscus, vith scattered smooth, with a few dull low minute verru- maculations hardly pantherine. Wings with cosities, a faint median carina and the walls the whole outer border broadly infumate, of the vertical fastigium dull but distinct; subvitreous apically so as to give the inner lateral foveolae small, triangular, rather the part semblance of an arcuate band, and deep; frontal costa moderately narrow, sub- connecting with a broad humeral taenia equal, contracted very slightly at summit which extends nearly to the base. Legs as and again a little more distinctly beneath the in Hippiscus. Mesosternal lobes separated ocellus, rather deeply sulcate especially below by a deeply truncate cuneiform median piece, the ocellus. Antennae testaceous, infuscated the inner margins of the lobes being rapidly in apical half, a little longer (') or a little and widely divergent. shorter (9) than head and prothorax to- gether. Pronotum stout, especially in the 9, the metazona its This subgenus is closely allied to the very faintly tumid, lateral carinae sharp in other of anteriorly especially subgenera Hippiscus,Hippis- the dorsal field of whole pronotum some- cus and Xanthippus, and to Leprus. It what' minutely verrucose, many of the verru- International Journal of Peptides

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