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Edited by Harrison G. Dyar. 



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

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

 field are solicited. 



Editorial. 

 The article by Mr. Busck published in the March number (Journ. 

 N. Y. Ent. See, xv, 19-36, 1907) was first issued as author's sepa- 

 rates on Feb. 7, and his new species should be credited with that date. 



The Entomological Society of America met in New York during 

 the session of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence and successfully organized. We have expressed our belief that 

 this society is unnecessary, yet as it has supplanted the Entomological 

 Club by a stronger association, we feel now more reconciled to its 

 existence. We shall await with interest to see if it shall serve any 

 further useful purpose. Any such is at present rather obscure to us. 



The question of the rule for selecting types of genera is further 

 treated by Mr. Witmer Stone (Science, n, s. , xxiv, 560, 1906) and 

 Mr. D. W. Coquillett (Science, n. s., xxv, 308, 1907). Mr. Stone 

 argues ably for the first species method, while Mr. Coquillett pro- 

 nounces against it. Mr. Coquillett' s article is written with a naive air 

 of final judgment, yet it exhibits a singular confusion of thought. 

 The "elimination method" is approved, yet it is perfectly evident 

 from his remarks that it is not the elimination method that Mr. Co- 

 quillett has in mind at all, but a strongly opposed method, namely 



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