164 TEAXS ACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



of the hickory leaf insects, I found species in which the tarsi had one joint and two 

 claws. (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Phila., Jan. 1867). Prom these and subsequent 

 discoA'erieSj we have the Monomera with the following characters : 



3I0NOMEEA. — Dactylosphaeridae, Tarsi, two claws. 

 Coccidm, Tarsi, one claw. 

 Lepidosaphidae, , Tarsi, no claw. 



This I at once saw tilled iip the vacancies under this section. Hence I proceeded 

 with considerable modesty to propose names for these vacancies according to the dis- 

 coveries I had made, and subsequent researches have made me strong in the position I 

 then took. 



For a full history of this important subject I must refer you to my original papers — 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sciences, Phila., Jan. ^ 1867, and Trans, Amer. Ent. Soc, Jan., 

 1868. With these papers before them, see what the editors of the American Entomolo- 

 ■gist, Vol, 1, p. 248 say under the head of ^' grape leaf gall louseP From that article I 

 have selected the following as an example of their method of publishing the views of 

 other writers : 



" Dr. Shimer, ot Mt. Carroll, made some interesting observations on the habits of 

 this insect, and made it the type of a new family {Dactylosphaeridoe) and of a new genus 

 {Dactylospliaei a) . The distinguishing features of this supposed family are certain ap- 

 pendages attached to the legs, which Dr. Shimer calls digitali; '' and further on they 

 add, " But we will say here that Dr. Shimer is unfortunate in grinding out new 

 genera and new families, for he has proposed a new family {LepidosapTice) for the com- 

 mon apple tree bark louse {Aspidiotus \_MyUlaspis] ConcMformis, Gmel.) based upon 

 similar appendages which he found on its legs," etc., etc. 



Here they would like to make the public believe that these appendages, digitali, are 

 the characters out of which I have proposed two families in Entomology ; whereas, the 

 leading character upon which I propose my family, Dactylosphaerida, is two claws on a 

 one-jointed tarsus, and the leading characters in LepidosapMdcB are a tarsus without a 

 claw, and a scale making not a scale like insect. The digitali from their globe ended 

 extremities I consider of some importance, but by no means of primary weight in 

 the fii'st named family, and in the second family I give them no more than secondary 

 importance. What reasons the junior editor, for he alone now becomes responsible;^ 

 can assign for so gross misrepresentation I am not able to anticipate. He certainly, 

 however, will be able to give some reason for the faith within him. I advanced those 

 j)rinciples for the sake of science, and science alone; are they adopted, I have gained 

 no pecuniary good; are they rejected by the scientific world, I have lost nothing by in- 

 timating the propriety of their adoption. What I did, grew out of pure, independent 

 scientific research, from the love of truth for its own sake, and not to battle with any 

 principles that the editors of said Entomologist were endeavoring to maintain, for 1 am 

 not aware that they ever advanced any principles of importance on this subject, I 

 have not the slightest personal feeling in the matter, and I hope that my much respected 

 friend, Mr. Riley, State Entomologist ot Missouri, will be free to defend the position 

 he has thus taken against me. When convinced by sound argument that the position I 

 maintain is wrong I wiU most cordially yield the point, The adoption or non-adoption of 

 those families and genera is nothing to me personally, but everything to the science of 

 the subject they comprehend; and here allow me to remark that it is a good rule for us 



