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lished. Monographic revisions will pile on top of monographic 

 revisions and the end will not be yet. The application of the 

 tests of breeding to all supposed species will be a long and 

 tedious task. Type and neotype will not suffice to determine 

 what a species is. when the experimental method is in full 

 possession of the field, and to-day's problems of nomenclature 

 are as nothing to those that will then arise ! 



Notes and News. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL GLEANINGS FROM ALL QUARTERS 

 OF THE GLOBE. 



More Nomenclatorial Notes on Trypetidae (Dipt.). 



Since the publication of my "Nomenclatorial Notes on the Dipterous 

 Family Trypetidae" in the NEWS for June, pages 275-279, I have seen 

 a paper by Dr. Hendel in the Wiener Entomologische Zeitung, xxxiii, 

 73-98, 1914, entitled "Die Gattungen der Bohrfliegen," which is a 

 synoptical table of the genera of the world, with their type-species. In 

 this Dr. Hendel makes Phorellia Desv. (1830) equal to Spilographa 

 Lw. (1862). This should be For cilia Desv. (1830) equal to Spilo- 

 firapha Lw. .(1862) equal to Phorellia Rond. (1870), that is, if Des- 

 voidy's species can be recognized. His (Handel's) Ditricha Rond. 

 (1856) should be Dithryca Rond. (1856") as originally proposed, and 

 his Hoploaaster Rond. (1856) is evidently meant for Oplochacta Rond. 

 (1856). Both of these are recognized as part of Carphotricha Lw. 

 (1862). Ditricha Rond. (1870) is a synonym of Urellia Desv. 

 (1830"). Paracavtha Coq. (1809) is recognized as distinct from Oplo- 

 chacta Rond. by the presence of black facial spots. He errs in saying 

 the third vein in Paracantha is bristly. It is entirely bare, which char- 

 acter may be used in separating it from Oplochaeta Rond. For 

 Euribia Meig. (1800) he gives arnica Linn, as the type species, but as 

 Coquillett in 1910 made M. artemisiae Fab. the type species, Hendel's 

 designation is invalid. This is another instance showing the uncer- 

 tainty of the status of Meigen's 1800 genera. E. T. CRESSON, JR. 



A Note on Argynnis laurenti Skinner (Lepid.). 



In the ENT. NEWS, vol. xxiv, p. 450, 1913, Dr. Skinner describes 

 under the above name an Argynnis from Silver Lake, Utah. We 

 greatly fear that this so-called new species is identical with krictnhild 

 Strecker, described and figured in the Ruffner Report, p. 1854 (1879), 

 from Rio Florida, Colo. Strecker also mentions other specimens from 



