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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



[March, '05 



This is a Joke. 



The student of nomenclature is duly warned in advance 

 that the species described herein is a fake and a hoax. If 

 there is one thing more than another that jars the writer of 

 this article it is to get an exchange list of some thousands of 

 numbers which it is necessary for him to translate into Danais 

 plcxippus, Colias philodice, Vanessa antiopa, Platysamia cecropia, 

 Deilcphila lineata and Pamphila cernes, etc., to find out there 

 is not one miserable thing he wishes. His good friend in the 

 western part of the Keystone State dotes on numbers, and 

 nothing agrees with him more than the reception of one of 

 Prof. S s exchange lists. Knowing he had all the num- 

 bers ever described, with fear and trembling, I' asked him to 



OD05AMIA PAPIOCALA, 



ME.RRICK. 



MS 1345763. 



send me a specimen of number 1,345,763, never expecting to 

 get it. A few days after came a letter containing the follow- 

 ing. " No doubt you have ere this concluded that I have for- 

 gotten your request for a specimen of number 1,345,763, but 

 such is not the case. I have been very busy getting my dupli- 

 cates in shape, lists made out, and shipping and receiving 

 sundry other numbers. I have found time this morning to 

 pack and ship the above number to you, and trust it may 



