JOUR NAL 



OF THE 



|§Uiu ^arfe Entomological Society* 



Edited by Harrison G. Dvar. 



Publishes articles relating to any class of the subkingdom Arlhropoda, subject 

 to the acceptance of the Publication Committee. Original communications in this 

 field are solicited. 



Editorial. 

 Our criticism of a work by Dr. Henry Skinner (Journ. N. Y. Ent. 

 Soc, xiii, 217, 1905) has brought a rather hysterical reply (Ent. 

 News, xvi, 217, 1905), which we should not notice, except that it 

 attempts a misrepresentation of our Review of the Hesperiidoe (Journ. 

 N. Y. Ent. Soc, xiii, in, 1905). Dr. Skinner cites two errors. 

 We presume that he is right in both cases ; the mistakes can be easily 

 corrected by transferring manataaqua to Thymelicus and proposing a 

 new name for Atrytone Dyar (not Scudder). This does not bear at 

 all upon the question of generic classification, which is the real issue. 

 Dr. Skinner claims to have studied the genera. We fail to see any 

 evidence of it in his remarks, which are actuated only by a considera- 

 tion of specific values. When Dr. Skinner gives us some original 

 work based on structural characters, we shall begin to believe that his 

 study of genera has been more than an opinionated attempt to dis- 

 credit them. 



To refer to Mr. Prout's remarks in our last issue, advocating the 

 "historical method," or rule of the first reviser in the fixation of 

 generic types, we presume the weakest point in his argument is shown 

 by the phrase "given the literature." The trouble is that the litera- 

 ture is not given. President David Starr Jordan (Scie?ice, n. s., xxii, 



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