214 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Dear Sir, — 



In the September number of the " Entomologist " I find my name 

 mentioned as one of a committee appointed by the entomologists at the 

 late meeting of the American Association, at Portland, to codify rules of 

 nomenclature for the guidance of entomologists. 



I was not present when this action was taken, and immediately notified 

 the Secretary that I declined to act upon any such committee, which, in 

 my judgment, should only be selected by and among zoologists in general. 



Samuel H. Scudder. 



Dear Sir 



I have to respond to Mr. Andrews' remarks, by requesting you to 

 publish one of Mr. Strecker's letters to me regarding the species of Hemaris. 

 This will show that I could not have known anything of Mr. Andrews. 

 Mr. Strecker, it will be seen, asks my assistance. Possibly Mr. Strecker 

 may have expected I would determine the species as " new," or publish 

 my observations in his very defective work. I knew nothing of the fact 

 that Mr. Andrews expected a dedication, or that I was to do the work of 

 determination to enable Mr. Strecker to perform that graceful office. Mr. 

 Strecker, for his private gratification, has instigated Mr. Andrews to figure 

 in a most absurd manner before the public, and the whole exhibition is 

 arranged for the purpose of bringing Mr. Strecker's indifferent publication 

 into notoriety, at the expense of Mr. Andrews' desires to figure as an 

 Entomological, or other, authority. From the letter following it will 

 appear that Mr. Strecker could not determine the species sent me. For, 

 when the specimens came to hand, " No. i Diffinis " was Hemaris 

 tenuis: "No. 2, like Diffinis," was Hemaris diffinis ; "No. 6" was H. 

 uniformis, and, in consequence of my determination, it is so cited in 

 page 1 2 of Mr. Strecker's work. " No. 4 " was not received by me; "No. 3 " 

 was my Hemaris marginalis ; " No. 5, Thysbe," was not the usual form of 

 that species. None of the species named by Mr. Strecker were correctly 

 determined. Considering that I had written at length on the genera 



