78 Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 



NOTE ON ANAS ARCUATA HORSFIELD. 



Matthews (Nov. Zool., 18, 1911, 9) has rejected Anas arcuata Horsfield, 

 because Horsfield (Zool. Research. Java, 1824, pi. 64) only intended to 

 rename or rather use what he considered an earlier MS. name of Cuvicr for 

 the bird he had previously described as Anas javanica (Tr. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 13, 1921, 199). Horsfield defeated his purpose, however, when he pub- 

 lished a named plate and diagnosis of an entirely different species and 

 Salvadori (Cat. Birds Br. Mus., 27, 1895, 153) was correct in accepting 

 Horsficld's name, founded upon the plate alone, even if the diagnosis should 

 prove to be an entirely different species, but I can not see that it is. 

 Ornithologists can continue to use Dendrocygna arcuata (Horsfield) until ■ 

 better reasons can be advanced than those brought forward by Mathews 

 or more recently by Dr. Oberholser (Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 34, 1921, 

 166). —J- H. Riley. 



NEW NAMES FOR THREE NORTH AMERICAN ASTERACEAE. 



The name Bidens involucrata has been in use for some years for a species 

 of beggar-tick of the central United States. As this name is preoccupied, 

 the species may be renamed Bidens polylepis, in reference to the numerous 

 outer phyllaries. The names of two species of Erigeron of the Western 

 United States, being preoccupied, must also be changed. The synonymy 

 of these plants is as follows: 



Erigeron nevadincola Blake, nom. nov. 



Erigeron nevadense A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8: 649. 1873. Not E. 

 nevadense Wedd. Chlor. And. 1: 194. 1857. 



Erigeron compactus Blake, nom. nov. 



Erigeron pidvinaius Rydb. Fl. Rocky Mts. 911. 1917. Not E. pul- 

 vinatum Wedd. Chlor. And. 1: 194. PI. 33, f. B. 1857. 



Bidens polylepis Blake, nom. nov. 



Coreopsis involucrata Nutt. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 7: 74. 1834. 

 Diodonta involucrata Nutt. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. n. ser. 7: 361. 1841. 

 Bidens involucrata Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 20: 281. 1893. Not 

 B. involucratus Phil. Anal. Mus. Nac. Chile Bot. 1891: 49. 1891. 



—S. F. Blake. 



CHANGE OF NAME. 



Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., has kindly called my attention to the fact that 

 the name neglectus given by me' to a race of the Microtus calif ornic us group 

 of meadow mice, was preoccupied by Arvicola neglectus [ = Microtus agrestis 

 neglectus] of Jenyns^, a meadow mouse inhabiting northern Scotland. 

 The subspecies must therefore be renamed, and may stand as Microtus 

 californicus sanctidiegi. — Remington Kellogg. 



iKellogg, R., Univ. Calif. Publ. in Zool., vol. 21, No. 1, p. 31. 1918. 

 2Jcnyns, L.. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (1), vol. 7, No. 44, p. 270, June, 1841. 



