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United States Civil-Service Examination for Scientific Assistant. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



The United States Civil Service Commission invites attention to 

 the regular spring examinations for scientific assistant. Department of 

 Agriculture, to be held April 9 and 10, 1913, at the principal cities of 

 the States. Entomology is among the subjects given, and persons 

 desiring to be examined should apply to the United States Civil Service 

 Commission, Washington, D. C., or to the secretary of the board of 

 examiners 1 at the places of examination, for application and examina- 

 tion form 1312, using the' exact title as given at the head of this an- 

 nouncement in making application. Application should be made in 

 ample time as soon as possible before the date of examination. 



The Adams Collection of Lepidoptera. 



This exceedingly rich and very extensive collection [of Exotic and 

 Palaearctic Lepidoptera, formed by the late Herbert Jordan Adams 

 (i838-March i, 1912), of Roseneath, E'nfield, England, said to be par- 

 ticularly rich in Ornithoptera and other fine Rhopalocera] is now in- 

 stalled in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. It is 

 contained in sixty-eight cabinets and numerous store-boxes. The num- 

 ber of specimens probably totals something like 150,000, among which 

 are hundreds of types The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 

 Oct., and The Entomologist, Dec., 1912. 



Two New Generic Names in Muscoidea (Dip.) 

 I am indebted to Professor T. D. A. Cockerell for advising me that 

 the generic names Oestropsis and Protogon'ta, used by me in my recently 

 published paper, entitled "New Genera and Species of Muscoid Flies 

 from the Andean and Pacific Coast Regions of South America" (U. S. 

 N. M., 1912), are preoccupied. I hereby propose Euoestropsis n. n. 

 for the former, and Protogoniops n. n. for the latter. The synonymy 

 will stand as follows : 

 EUOESTROPSIS Townsend, 1913. 



Syn. Oestropsis Towns., 1912 (non Brauer, 1868; non Smith, 



1868). 

 PROTOGONIOPS Townsend, 1913. 



Syn. Protogonia Towns., 1912 (non Cope, 1881). CHARLES H. T. 

 TOWNSEND. 



Bromeliadicolous Insects. 



The insect fauna of epiphytic bromeliads, which in this country has 

 been discussed by Knab, Alexander, Malloch, Calvert and others, has 

 been receiving attention recently in Europe. Seiior C. Picado, of Costa 

 Rica, now in Paris, in the Comptes Reiidus of the Academy of Sciences 



