THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 25 



FEMALE OF CROCOTA ROSA, FRENCH. 



BY G. H. FRENCH, CARBONDALE, ILL. 



In describing this species in Vol. XXII., page 133, of the Canadian 



Entomologist, I had before me two males, one from Texas and one from 



Ohio. I have now before me a fine fresh female from Champaign, 111., 



the first of this sex I have seen, and I will give here some additional 



characters of the species. The forewings are fawn, a little darker than in 



the type, but the latter was evidently a little faded. The hindwings have 



a few dusky scales in the outer border near the anal angle. On the fore- 

 wings the veins are a trifle darker than the spaces between the veins, but 

 only from the wing being thicker here. Antennae a shade darker than the 

 forewings ; a semi-ring back of the eyes that is red tinted, as also the 

 underside of the palpi ; upper side of tibiae a little more red tinted. 

 Abdomen above concolorous with the hindwings, an obscure row of dorsal 

 dusky spots ; whole of underside of body concolorous with upper side 

 of forewings. 



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CORRESPONDENCE. 



A CORRECTION. 



Sir, — On page 225, Can. Ent., 1S92, I described a new Bombycid 

 genus, Melia. Finding that this name is preoccupied, I have changed 

 it to Eumelia, calling the insect proper Eumelia Danbyi, Neum.  



B. Neumoegen. 



HONEY-BEE OR HOUSE-FLY. 



Sir, — The November number of your journal contains upon its first 

 and second pages some rather misleading comments on an article of mine 

 in Scie?iee, of April 29. There was nothing in the article to justify the 

 intimation that I had arranged any insects in a " linear series." The 

 article was in the main a re-statement of Hyatt and Arms's view of the 

 systematic position of the Diptera. To this I added several considerations 

 tending to reinforce their conclusions. I referred to their placing " the 

 Hymenoptera second and the Lepidoptera third," but this does not 

 necessarily imply anything " linear." See their book " Insecta." 



So far am I from holding the views imputed to me that I prefer not to 

 regard any of the groups as representing " parallel branches," believing 

 that "we should make an effort to avoid the expression of lineal rank in 

 groups of animals." 



