THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 121 



ALLEGATIONS : NEW AND OLD. 



BY W. L. DISTANT, LONDON, ENG. 



In the Canadian Entomologist (ante p. 31), Kirkaldy writes: 

 "Budtzus, Distant, was founded on nymphs (mistaken for short-winged 

 adults !)." In my description of the genus (Faun. Brit. Ind. Rhynch., n, 

 p. 76) I stated : "This genus is founded on six apparently undeveloped 

 specimens." Comment is needless. 



ORIENTAL CULICID^. 



In the October number of last year, page 376, is a criticism by Dr. 

 H. G. Dyarofmy recent Catalogue of Oriental Culicid/e, in which he 

 refers to a printed slip containing additions and corrections, and which, as 

 I therein noted, was to be regarded as M.S. corrections only, and not as a 

 published supplement. 



In fact, I intended to make the, at first, few corrections, actually in 

 my own handwriting, but the publication of Mr. Theobald's fourth volume 

 of his Monograph necessitated so many alterations and additions that it 

 became impractical to adopt this plan, and I therefore had them printed, 

 intending my correspondents to enter them themselves in manuscript and 

 then destroy the printed slip, exactly as I should, in receiving a new book, 

 turn first to the page of "errata!'' and make the necessary emendations in 

 accordance with it. Thus they would have fulfilled the request I particu- 

 larly made at the heading of the slip, to regard them literally as M.S. 

 corrections by me. 



As the printing of a few notes, lists or catalogues (under the express 

 stipulation that they are issued in printed form merely to save the labour 

 of copying) does not constitute publication, these notes are most certainly 

 not "published." I, only, possess them; they are not on sale nor obtainable 

 elsewhere; they bear no date, and, I repeat, were issued expressly as 

 personal corrections only. Unless they are received in this manner I shall 

 discontinue adding them to the separate copies of my Catalogue. 



As regards the criticism of my work, I have nothing to say, except 

 that my "new classification," as Dr. Dyar calls it, was not intended at all 

 as a fresh view, on this subject. 



It was necessary to adopt some groups higher than genera, and there- 

 fore, to the Culicince and Corethrince subfamilies, which the authors of the 

 recent Palsearctic Catalogue deem sufficient, I added the Anophelince. and 

 Aedeomyince, mainly as a concession to the views of workers in this family. 



