264 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Sept., '06 



Henry Skinner met at Wilkes-Barre. The following morning was spent 

 at Harvey's Lake, where some fair collecting was had. In the afternoon 

 it rained, and from that time on we lived in hope that sometime it would 

 stop. Sunday and Monday were spent at Ricketts, North Mountain, 

 Wyoming Co. Monday morning we went to Ganoga Lake and managed 

 to pick up a few insects between the showers. At Harvey's Lake we 

 had the pleasure of having with us Prof. C. O. Thurston of Kingston. 

 We left North Mountain Tuesday morning. In spite of the continuous 

 rain some nice things were taken, especially by the Micro-Lepidopterists, 

 who will doubtless report later. The locality is in the boreal life zone. 

 A pleasant feature of the trip was the warm hospitality of Colonel R. 

 Bruce Ricketts. 



DR. DYAR'S SQUARE DEALING. Under the above caption Mr. D. W. 

 Coquillett refers to a paper published by Mr. Knab and myself on March 

 14, 1906, as an advance separate from the Journal of the New York Ento- 

 mological Society. We were obliged to criticize very severely Mr. 

 Coquillett's work on mosquitoes, and it is therefore, perhaps, pardonable 

 that he shows some rancor in his reply. I should allow him the fullest 

 latitude and withhold any response, except that his statement of the cir- 

 cumstances is faulty, and clearly calls for correction. The work on the 

 Carnegie Monograph was divided, the adults being assigned to Mr. 

 Coquillett, the larvae to me. In accordance with this arrangement, Mr. 

 Busck gave me his larvae on his return from the West Indies. Mr. 

 Coquillett asked to examine them, and I allowed him to study them until 

 I found that, in an access of overzeal, he was attempting to do my work 

 to the neglect of his own. I then demanded the return of the material. 

 This small difficulty was not, as implied by Mr. Coquillett, the cause of 

 the preparation of our paper. That is explained in its own introduction. 

 It only remains to add that its hasty publication was secured to anticipate 

 Mr. Coquillett's names, which it was expected he would publish on infor- 

 mation secured from me, and on larval characters, with which I consider 

 he is not prepared to deal. In regard to his names being "tentative," 

 they were so only as subject to my revision on larval characters. They 

 were the best he could do with the adults alone. The matter had con- 

 centrated to a study of the larvae as independent organisms, and, as such, 

 I considered the field preeminently my own, including the baptism of the 

 new forms. 



I was quite unaware that I had changed Mr. Coquillett's marks of doubt 

 from species to genus, and, if so, it was purely by inadvertence and with- 

 out any such object as I am charged with. I have tried to deal with Mr. 

 Coquillett's work as squarely as possible, and if I am obliged to condemn 

 it unreservedly, it is without any personal animosity. 



As far as the Carnegie Monograph is concerned, the situation has been 

 finally clarified by removing Mr. Coquillett from any connection with it, 

 which is now in my hands. HARRISON G. DYAR. 



