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of the names proposed by Lioy in place of Phora for the 

 spined-leg species left nameless through the substitution of 

 Phora for Trineura, Meigen, but I find on a perusal of his 

 paper that such a course is impossible. 



It will be necessary to resort to later attempts at sub-division 

 for generic names for the group. 



In 1898 Dahl created a genus Dorniphora- for the recep- 

 tion of one species dohrni Dahl (Sitzb. Ges. Natf. Fre., 

 Berl., 188) and since then other species have been added to it 

 until there are about ten species that may be classed as con- 

 generic with the original type, most of which had been known, 

 but not considered as generically distinct from those in Phora. 



In 1908 (Jour. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glas.) I subdivided Phora into 

 five genera. The names of some of these genera I afterwards 

 discovered were preoccupied and in my paper on the Phoridae, 

 now ready for the press, I have altered the names of those. It 

 will thus be necessary to use those names which I originally pro- 

 posed as subgenera in place of Phora. They are, I believe, 

 as near an approach to a natural arrangement as it is possible 

 to obtain with our present limited knowledge of the group, 

 and will facilitate the study of the species, if they serve no other 

 useful purpose. In the end this is really what genera are gen- 

 erally considered as being constructed for rather than to indi- 

 cate their position in nature, though I do not subscribe to that. 



N. B. It may be as well to state that the "marginal vein" 

 of Lioy is the third longitudinal vein, and that the "submar- 

 ginal vein" is the fourth vein, i. e. first thin vein. 



SCHOLARSHIP IN ENTOMOLOGY. Mrs. H. M. Bernard, of London, 

 has arranged with Professor Kellogg to establish a small scholarship in 

 the department of entomology at Stanford, to aid an advanced student 

 for two years in an investigation of some problem in insect evolution. 

 The scholarship will yield one hundred dollars a year besides an addi- 

 tional sum to pay all laboratory fees. Mrs. Bernard is the widow of 

 the English biologist, Henry M. Bernard, a student of Ernst Haeckel, 

 at Jena, an authority on the corals and an independent investigator of 

 evolution problems. Science. 



