Jan., '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 41 



tanus with edwardsi as a mere synonym, must have the sense of intellec- 

 tual perception very feebly developed ; such a course could only be con- 

 fusing to future reviewers and of no possible service to science, which is 

 supposed to be an orderly and systematic statement of fact. This lapse 

 of scientific acumen is in every way similar to that of Roeschke in sup- 

 pressing the splendidly distinct Brennus insularis as a synonym of mar- 

 ginatus, the reduction of symmetricus to the status of an "aberration," 

 whatever that may mean, the identification of strictus with latipennis 

 Mots., the suppressing of basalis as a mere subspecies of crislatus and 

 Cychrus pustulosus as a synonym of tuberculatus, and in reaching many 

 other equally false conclusions, which can only serve to still more hope- 

 lessly befog the subject of specific identity in this rather difficult group 

 of beetles. 



While engaged in polemics, it may be worth while to draw attention to 

 a recent article by Dr. J. Weise, in which he emits the opinion that I did 

 not intend to write Macroneemia a genus of Coccinellidae but meant 

 Micronezmia, and proceeds to change it forthwith, describing a new spe- 

 cies under the name so altered. The Greek word /AO.K/DOS, in its essential 

 and fundamental meaning, conveys the idea of linear extension, either 

 in space or time, and not of expansion in all directions like /^eyas. In 

 the Latin it becomes wacer, and in English emaciated. In naming the 

 genus Macroncemia, I intended to convey the meaning of extension, 

 that is : it is a slender and relatively elongate Ntzmia, without reference 

 to its size. In taking it for granted that Macron&mia must be'a mistake 

 and in substituting Microntzmia for it, Dr. Weise has merely increased 

 the burden of synonymy, for Microneemia Weise, must be a synonym of 

 Macroncemiq Csy. By the soundest rules it could not have been altered 

 anyway, even though erroneous or a misprint. THOS. L. CASEY. 



ON THE BIOLOGIES OF THE RHYNCHOPHORA OF NORTH AMERICA. BY 

 W. DVVIGHT PIERCE. studies from the Zoological Laboratory of 

 the University of Nebraska. Pp. 249-320, No. 78. 



Notes and. Ne\vs. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OP THE GLOBE. 



EVE hung her wash out to dry and a caterpillar ate it. 



Going to the dogs, at any rate, is no indication of degeneracy among 

 fleas. 



CHANGE OF ADDRESS. W. E. Hinds, Professor of Entomology and 

 Entomologist to the Experiment Station, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 

 from Dallas, Texas, to Auburn, Alabama. 



MR. HENRY L. VIERECK, of Philadelphia, has been appointed Chief 

 Clerk of the Division of Economic Zoology of the Department of Agri- 

 culture of the State of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg. 



