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An excellent portrait of Dr. Staudinger forms the frontispiece, and is 

 remarkably characteristic of the man as I saw him only a few weeks 

 before his death. The last letter I received from him was in acknowledg- 

 ment of a copy of my own " Catalogue of the Noctuida? of Temperate 

 North America," and in this letter he mentioned his readiness to start for 

 that " Erholungsreise " from which he never returned alive. 



John B. Smith. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



A Protest. 



Sir, — I very frequently read remarks in Entomological papers 

 deploring the fact that the large and interesting Order of Hymenoptera 

 has comparatively so few students ! One of the chief causes is the 

 continual changing of already-established names, the creating of new 

 species where only slight resemblance exists or where determination 

 is based upon one lone o* or ? on b r > an d the frequent retracting of passed 

 opinions by some authors, as is the case with Prof. Robertson in Prosofiis 

 zizice, Robt., in March number of Ent. News and Can. Ent., May, 1896. 

 Then again in Can. Ent., Aug., 1901, such a lot of species and genera 

 based upon imaginary (?) characters ! What can one make of Epeolus 

 lectoides, n. sp., based on one female "closely resembling E. lectus,Cv., 

 and may be the same " ? If an author cannot tell whether it is distinct or 

 not,, why name it? Again, "Halictus truncatus, n. sp.: This species 

 and H. arcuatus, Robt., have both been identified as H. similis, Sin." 

 Chelostomoides, n. g., proposed for a single species, " with general 

 characters of Megachile." In Trans. Acad. Sc. of St. Louis, Vol. X., No. 

 2, the genus Parandreua, which has been proposed by him, is suppressed 

 as needless. It remains to be seen whether the new genus Paralictus — 

 Can. Ent. — will fare better, and a few more instances which I will 

 not mention. It is such work that is confusing, not to say disgusting, to a 

 student like me. R. J. Weith, Elkhart, Ind. 



Another Protest. 



Sir, — I had been rather anxiously looking out for a further instal- 

 ment of Mr. Hanham's list of Manitoban moths, as I wanted to compare 

 notes about certain of the Geometers. It is just to hand, but when I 



