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Vol. XXXII. 



LONDON, JULY, 1900. 



No. 7 



CONTENTS. 



Fyles — The " Entomological Muddle" 193 



Ball — Some new Jassidae 200 



Bogue — A new species of Kermes 205 



Baker — Notes on Idioceius 207 



Beutenmuller — New Sesia fiom Alaska 20S 



Grote — Types of Noctiiid genera 209 



Webster — Diplera from wheat fields 212 



King— Coccida; of the Ivy 214 



Osborn — New species of Haematopinus 215 



Book Notice — Grote's Systema Lepidop- 



terorum Hildesia; 216 



Personal Notes 213, 216 



THE "ENTOMOLOGICAL MUDDLE" — A REJOINDER. 



BY THE REV. THOMAS W. FYLES, SOUTH QUEBEC. 



I thought I had " said my say " on the Cunea-Congrua question, but 

 Mr. Lyman's attack upon me demands a reply. 



Mr. Lyman has made a military allusion in rather questionable 

 taste. I would remind him that the reason the Boers have sfuck to their 

 guns is that, until now (May, 1900), their opponents have not been able 

 to capture their guns, but have, on the other hand, furnished the Boers 

 with new artillery and fresh stores of ammunition. 



Mr. Lyman has supplied me with new proofs that cunea, Drury, and 

 pundatissima, S. & A., are not identical — proofs that I think will be 

 convincing to every candid reader. I shall set them forth in due course. 



I will arrange the remarks I have now to offer as I did those which I 

 made in the March number of this year's Entomologist. 

 I. — Concerning the identity of congrua, Walker, with antigone, Strecker. 



Mr. Lyman thinks it probable that I am right in maintaining that 

 antigone, Strecker, is only a synonym of congrua, Walker ; but he thinks 

 also that two clauses in my summary of evidence brought before us — viz.; 



(c) Dr. Hulst and others have bred it. # 



(d) S. antigone has been found to be identical with it — " too 

 positive to be scientific." Why ? Dr. Hulst described the larv^ under 

 the name of congrua, and the larv:e I raised were unquestionably of the 

 same kind as his, and these produced moths which tally in every particular 

 with the description given by Grote and Robinson (see description on 

 page 123 of the May number), several of them having the S-like mark 



