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/ 8 from "i P. dorsif/er Wied. and P. scaurus Walk, are according to Colonel Yerbury 

 \bottora. / probably synonyms and belong to the genus Eutolmus. 



658. 10. For D. spinifer read D. spiniger ZelL, which is a synonym of D. fusci- 

 pennis Meig. 



678. 11. M. atrlcapilliis. Some males taken by Colonel Yerbury at the The Mumbles 

 in Glamorgan, on September 1-6, 1908, have hardly any horns to the 

 ventral process. 



695. 36. hcemorrhoa for hcemorrhea. 



711. i , >AcNEPHALUM should in my opinion be emended to Acnephallum. 



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Note. — The contention that Meigen's genera of 1800 should be revived and claim priority 

 is on a par with the discovery of certain Chicagoan historians that the annulment 

 of one of the marriages of King Henry VIII. was invalid, and that consequently 

 King Edward VII. is not the King of England. Meigen himself and his contem- 

 poraries (including Latreille, who often referred to the work) did not accept the 

 genera as legally established. If any attempt be made now to substitute Ilermione 

 for Oxycera, Erinna for Xylophagus, Clirysozona for Hcematopnta, etc., an absolutely 

 flawless case must be made out, and these cases are full of flaws. Irrespective of 

 the refusal of the supposed author's refusal to recognise the work, there remains the 

 fact that none of the genera were founded in accordance with binomial law ; a claim 

 is now made that they can be identified through Meigen's paper of 1803, but I have 

 on pages 247 and 285 thrown considerable doubt upon the priority value of that 

 paper. Coquillett's paper in The Canadian Entomologist of December 1908 is 

 " special pleading " of an aggravated form. 



