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already a considerable number of described species and the addition 

 of four more regardless of preceding work may not improbably enrich 

 the synonymy. 



Colonel Casey (Memoirs, VIII, p. 243) says: "If the genus Bra- 

 dy tns [heretofore regarded as a subgenus of Amara] is to be main- 

 tained, the name septcntrionalis of Leconte [heretofore replaced be- 

 cause of previous use in Amara] is to be restored." This is contrary 

 to Art. 36 of The International Code by Stiles, 1905, and Art. 26 of 

 The Entomological Code by Banks & Caudell, 1912; it is also contrary 

 to the traditional maxim, "once a synonym always a synonym," though 

 the names here referred to would now be called homonyms, and I 

 think Colonel Casey is wrong. 



Bembidion pngctamini Csy., 1918, p. 148, is preoccupied by puge- 

 tanum Fall, 1916 (Bull. Br. Ent. Soc, XI. p. 13), and may be changed 

 to cascyi n.m. 



The name blaisdclli proposed on page 222 for Bcmhidion concin- 

 nimi Blaisdell is unnecessary. Dr. Blaisdell having himself changed 

 the name fourteen years ago to perconcinmim (Ent. News, XV, 1904, 

 p. 349). In this connection it has been suggested to me by Mr. Fall 

 that when the original author is accessible it is perhaps better to 

 give him the opportunity of changing any preoccupied name himself 

 than to seize the opportunity of doing so ; especially as the change 

 may already have been made in some overlooked item, as in the pres- 

 ent instance. 



Colonel Casey's revision of Pogonini, issued November 12. 1918, 

 was of course in the printer's hands before Dr. V^an Dyke's article in 

 the October number of Ent. News had appeared. I have been obliged 

 to alter some of Colonel Casey's conculsions in the tribe Pogonini on 

 account of this article of Dr. Van Dyke's and for other reasons. 



In Loxandrus, I believe Colonel Casey has misapplied the name 

 rectus Say, in citing laticoUis as a variety thereof. As I have pre- 

 viously shown (Bull. Am. M. N. H., XXXIV, 191 5, p. 578) rectus 

 Say and velox Dej. are closely related if not identical and laticoUis 

 Chd. belongs with lucididus Dej. and erraticus Dej. in that section of 

 the genus having obtuse hind angles to the prothorax. Since only 

 nine out of twenty-seven previously described species are recognized 

 by Colonel Casey, I have thought it best to follow the manuscript I 

 had prepared, interpolating his new names. 



