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On pages 68-69 (72 of Edition II.) of the same Proceedings, we find 

 this note under date of Aug. 27th, 1855: — "Donations to the Cabinet. From 

 Dr. Behr a specimen of the Cal. silk-worm {Saturnia ceanothi Behr)." There 

 is no doubt as to the application of the name nor, I think, to its vahdity; the 

 name ceanothi Behr cannot, however, under the most favorable conditions, be 

 considered to have been published prior to the first week of September, 1855. 



Meanwhile, in the Bulletin Soc. Ent. France for 1855, p. XXXII., we 

 find recorded that Dr. Boisduval exhibited certain Californian Lepidoptera 

 which he proposed describing at a later date ; the name of each species, together 

 with a very short diagnosis, was given, sufficient, however, I believe, to establish 

 the validity of the names. Among the species mentioned was Saturnia euryalus, 

 which is obviously the same species to which Behr applied the name ceanothi, in 

 fact in Lep. de la Californie, p. 83, 1869, Boisduval mentions this fact, giving 

 erroneously priority to ceanothi Behr. 



Page XXXII. of the Bulletin Soc. Ent. France was issued with the first 

 part of the Annales for that year and deals with the meetings held from January 

 to March. Dr. N. Banks, who has kindly examined some of the current publi- 

 cations with a view to ascertaining the date on which Part I. of the Annales 

 was published writes me that unfortunately no record of its reception is to be 

 found either in the Transactions Ent. Soc. London or the Stettiner Entom. 

 Zeitschrift. However, in the Proceedings of the meeting of the London Ento- 

 mological Society, held Sept. 3rd, 1855, the receipt of a reprint entitled "Lettre 

 addressee a M. jacquelin du Val, etc.," is recorded; this reprint is from p. XXVI. 

 of the same Bulletin and was read at the same meeting at which Boisduval 

 presented his specimens. It must have been received by the Society 

 between Aug. 6th and Sept. 3rd. It seems reasonable therefore to suppose that 

 Part I. of the Annales for 1855 must, at the very latest, have appeared some 

 time in August ; as a matter of fact it probably was issued several months earlier. 



Euryalus Bdv. will therefore clearly take priority over ceanothi Behr as 

 the name for the Californian Silk-worm Moth, the name rubra, as used by later 

 entomologists, having no valid standing. 



CRANE-FLIES OF NEW YORK. 



Cornell University has just issued Part II. of "The Crane-Flies of New 

 York" by Charles Paul Alexander. This part, which is ])ublished as Memoir 

 38 of the University Agricultural Experiment Station, deals with the biology 

 and phylogeny of the crane-flies and gives representative crane-fly life histories, 

 external and internal morphology, and concludes with keys and descriptions. 

 The monograph contains about 450 pages. 



To persons interested in research in the field covered by the Memoir, 

 copies will be sent as long as the supjjly lasts. Ask for M-38, and address 

 requests to Office of Publication, College of Agriculture, Ithaca, New York. 



Dr. C. L. Metcalf, for the past seven years Professor of Entomology in 



Ohio State University, has resigned to accept the position of Professor of 



Entomology and Head of the Department of Entomology in the University of 



Illinois. He should be addressed in care of the university at Urbana, Illinois, 



after September first. 



Mailed, Oct. 31st, 1921. 



