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snowi and vents, nemornm and sassacus. Atrytonopsis hianna 

 and Lerodea loammi are so close specifically that they may be 

 topomorphs, yet they are placed in widely separated genera. A, 

 python Edws. should not be placed where it is. Compare fusca 

 and textor in the genus Stomylcs. The association of scudderi 

 and aaroni may go in an " up-to-date classification," but na- 

 ture would never recognize it. 



Maculata and eufala would never agree to being associated in 

 Lerodes if they knew it. The same theory applies to arpa, 

 palatka, byssus, dion in relation to yehloxA pontiac. The species 

 under Prcncs are closely related. Padraona dara Kollar is the 

 same species as omaha Edw. Omaha is the type of Potanthus 

 Scudder (1872). Padraona Moore (1881). Dr. Dyar says 

 Megathymus cofaqni Strecker and M. streckeri Skinner are not 

 well separated. The specimens and the literature prove other- 

 wise. M. aryxna Dyar is a synonym of neumoegeni Edw. The 

 fig. 3, pi. 69, Biol. Cent. Amer. Het. is not neumoegeni, as stated 

 by Dr. Dyar. 



Dr. Dyar assumes that I am not familiar with the genera of 

 the Hesperidae, because I have not used all or many of those 

 proposed. I have not used them because in many cases they 

 are unscientific, illogical and untenable. Dr. Dyar's Re- 

 vision proves the correctness of my position. I can't logically 

 be held responsible for not proposing better ones. When I 

 became interested in the family the species were in great con- 

 fusion in collections, and I never saw a collection where they 

 were all correctly named. I have named specimens for many 

 years from all over the country and the species is the unit of 

 classification, and a multiplicity of bad genera a Tower of 

 Babel. 



I WISH to report that out of 335 T, polypheums cocoons about 40 had 

 stems. One contained a parasite. RICHARD KUSCHEL, Chicago, 

 Illinois. 



MR. E. P. VAN DUZEE, of the Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, New York, 

 has gone to Jamaica for a few weeks' collecting trip. We may look for- 

 ward to an increase in our knowledge of the Hemipterous fauna of that 

 island. 



