OF WASHINGTON, VOLUME XI, 1909 m 



Dr. Dyar said that in Lepidoptera there was quite a variation 

 in the number of molts, and that if food was scarce the larva- 

 had more molts. He was of the opinion that cases occurred 

 in the Lepidoptera similar to the one cited by Mr. Hooker, in 

 which the number of molts occasionally varied under appar- 

 ently similar conditions. Such an occurrence, however, i- 

 rather unusual. 



Air. Schwarz called attention to the fact that in one of the 

 past volumes of Proceedings of this Society, note was made of 

 a dermestid which lived on for years and continued to molt 

 when deprived of food. 



Mr. Caudell presented the following paper: 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON ORTHOPTERA. 



Bv A. N. CAUDELL. 



A genus with more than one originally included species, 

 none of which have been designated as type, can be referred in 

 part here and in part there, but when a type species is once 

 designated the genus is given entity and must thereafter follow 

 its type. Kirby refers Phasina crawanycnsc Haan to his genus 

 Phasgania. But crawangcnse is the selected type of Dixippus 

 Stal and thus Phasgania must be placed in synonymy under 

 that genus, which has priority. Dixippus is therefore resur- 

 rected from the synonymy under Lonchodcs Gray, and under it 

 is to be listed the species recorded in Kirby's catalogue under 

 Phasgania. 



Phasina graveolens King* is eligible to citation in catalogues 

 in synonymy under Anisomorpha hnprcstoidcs Stoll. 



Some time ago I showed the generic name Phyllodromia 

 Serv. to be preoccupied by the earlier dipterous genus of the 

 same spelling, and replaced Serville's name by the new generic 

 name Blattclla. This action has been almost generally accepted, 

 but two noted English writers have not done so. As the reason 

 for this one of the writers. Mr. Kirby of the British Museum. 

 wrote me that he was not sure but that Liosilpha Stal was 

 available for use in this connection and. until time permitted 



*Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1867, p. LXXX (1867). 



