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not be forgotten that no one is bound to accept and use them 

 any further than he likes. If he prefers to stop at good old- 

 fashioned species (in some cases this means groups of modern 

 species) he may do so, or if his taste permits he may go on to 

 true subspecies; if constituted like the writer he will pursue 

 differentiation (of categories not of individuals) to the limit 

 the available material will permit, but will expect no one to 

 follow beyond a point in harmony with his individual point 

 of view. 



So much off the text; returning to minor taxonomic groups, 

 it is submitted that the following definitions appear to accord 

 with the best modern usage. If a group of similar individuals, 

 or an individual presumed to represent such an assemblage, 

 is distinguished from another by one or more non-intergrad- 

 ing characters of whatever kind, it is regarded as a species, 

 and its range may be anything that climate, geography, geo- 

 logical history, commerce or fate may have accorded it. If 

 its essential characters intergrade with those of another 

 form from which it has a more or less separate range, it is 

 called a subspecies. If its characters intergrade and it occu- 

 pies no definite area to the exclusion of related forms it is a 

 variety. Simple melanistic and albinistic varieties or com- 

 parable forms, are called color phases and usually have not 

 been recognized in nomenclature. 



(To be Continued} 



Coleophora apicialbella nom. nov. (Microlepid.) 



The name Coleophora apicialbella is here proposed for the species of 

 Coleophora described in this journal, Vol. XXX, p. 109, 1919, under the 

 name Coleophora apicella preoccupied by Coleophora apicella Stainton of 

 Europe. ANNETTE F. BRAUN, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



A Correction in the Mecopodinae (Orthopt.) 



Figure 10, pi. ii and fig. i, pi. iii of Fascicule 171 of Wytsman's Genera 

 Insectorum on the Mecopodinae are reversed. The first really represents 

 the 9 of Mecopoda elongata Linn, while the latter represents the tf of 

 Mossula basalis Caud. A. N. CAUDELL, Washington, D.C. 



