102 General Notes. 



SPELERPES PORPHYRITICUS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



Mr. Edward S. Wilson caught in a cold mountain brook at Bridge- 

 water, N. H., in June, 1902, a specimen of this species. The brook 

 empties into Lake Pesquaney (New found lake), and where the animal 

 was caught is about seven hundred feet above sea level. I am not aware 

 that this species has been taken as far north. The specimen is now in 

 the collection of Camp Pe.squaney, Bridgwater, N. H., and was iden- 

 tified by Dr. Samuel Garman. — Itegiuald Heber Howe, Jr. 



NANNORCHILUS, NEW NAME FOR HEMIURA, PREOCCUPIED. 



In 1888, finding that Uropsila as used for a genus of Troglodytidae was 

 preoccupied, I proposed the name Ilemiurd as a substitute. This proves 

 also to have been used previously, so it becomes necessary to replace it 

 by another. The synonymy of the genus, to date, is follows. 



Nannorchilus Ridgway. 



Uropsila (not Uropsilus Edwards, 1872) Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. 

 Neotr., 1873, 155. (Type, Troglodytes lencogatitra GouXA.) 



Hemiura (not Heviinrns Rudolphi, 1809, nor Gervais, 1855) Ridgway, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mhs., X, Aug. G, 1888, 511. (Substitute for 

 Uropsila Sclater and Salvin, preoccupied.) 



NantiorcJdlus* Ridgway, nom. nov. (Type, Troglodytetilevrogastra Gould.) 



— Robert liidgway. 



A PREOCCUPIED CRAB NAME. 



The name Melia used by Latreille in 1825, for a genus of crabs (Encyc. 

 Meth., X, 705), is preoccupied by Melia Billberg, 1820, a genus of am- 

 phipods (Enum. Insect.). I am obliged to Dr. Walter Faxon for verify- 

 ing this reference. Latreille's genus, which has for type the curious 

 anemone-grasping species, M. tesselata (Latr.), may be known as Lybia, 

 a name used by Milne Edwards in 1834 (Hist. Nat. Crust., I, 431) before 

 he was aware of Latreille's genus. — Mary J. Rathbun. 



*Ndrroi, dwarf; op^i'/lo5, a wren. 



