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of the three terminal joints of the antennae and the peculiar erect 
pile on the legs of G-nophomyia , perhaps also on the aberrant shape 
of the discal cell.” Now the G-nopliomyia of Schiner’s Fauna is 
Trimicra O. S. (as Schiner recognized later in his Novara work), 
and Gnophomyia O. S. (1859) is an entirely different genus. This 
proves that Loew had not paid the slightest attention to the elab¬ 
orate paper on Trimicra which I had sent him after its publication 
in 1861. The same cause produced the same confusion in Loew’s 
paper: “ Beschreibung einiger afrikanischer Diptera nemocera” 
QBerl. Ent. Zeit., 1866, p. 55-62), in which, on p. 59, a Gnophomyia 
inconspicua , sp. n., occurs, which is a Trimicra. That it was easier 
for Loew to read German than English is not an excuse ; he under¬ 
stood English enough to read Haliday and Walker, and even to at¬ 
tempt to write the first volume of the “ Monographs ” in English. 
The two copies of my work of 1859 which I had sent to Loew 
after its publication, I purchased after his death from the booksell¬ 
ers in Leipzig 1 who had acquired his library. One of these copies 
was bound , but does not bear any trace of having been handled; 
not a single pencil-mark showing study; not even the slightest 
crease, proving that the pages had been turned “ again and again,” 
as Loew had assured me. The other copy was in a state of pristine 
purity; that is, entirely uncut. Such is one of the amusing epi¬ 
sodes of my long relations with Loew'which I could not resist 
reproducing here. That Loew appreciated my system of Tipulidae 
he proved much later when, in 1878, he desired me to introduce 
it in his work on Amber Diptera (compare my Chapter IX: On 
Loew’s work on Amber Diptera, etc.). 
Ill ROBERT KENNICOTT 
As early as 1859, that is, only three years after my arrival in the 
United States, in my “Monograph of the North American Tipu¬ 
lidae brevipalpi ”' (7, 1859, p. 200) I expressed my gratitude to 
1 List und Francke. I preserve both copies, untouched, as a memento in my 
library. 
