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at tip and not distinctly laminate. The (^ organ has the barbs of the 

 corneous lateral valves very remote from the tips. 



From the foregoing it would see n that F. calceahis is more nearly 

 allied to certain Dromceolus than to F. oixhesides. 



Corymbites divaricatus Lee. — On comparing notes with INIr. 

 Ulke it was observed that the 9 of this species is the crasstis of Leconte. 

 Although placed in different sections of the genus the suggestion of iheir 

 identity once made, the conclusion is inevitable. The (^ antennse are 

 serrate and longer than the head and thorax, the second joint is shorter 

 and thicker than the third, the tiiird is a Httle shorter than the fourth, 

 gradually thicker tow.irds the ti]), but not iiroad like tlie fourth and fol- 

 lowing joints. The thorax of the (^ is much narrower than the elytra, 

 the sides straight or nearly so, gradually diverging from apex nearly to 

 the base, thence the angles are produced and very strongly diverging. 

 The elytral strice are about as wide as the intervals and with close, deeply 

 impressed, quadrate punctures. In the male the body is much inflated, 

 generally darker in color, piceous above and beneath and more shining. 

 The thorax is very convex and as wide as the base of the elytra, and the 

 angles but feebly diverging. The antennae are about two-thirds as long 

 as in the ^, very feebly serrate, the fourth and following joints much 

 shortened and hence the third jt)int is quite as long as the fourth, but 

 narrower. The tarsi, especially the anterior ones, are shorter m the (^. 





To Whom it May Concern. 



Editor Entomglogica Americana : 



In a Kcent issue you mention that Prof. Fernald contemplates a 

 visit to Europe the present Summer in order to examine types, and by 

 way of comment object to the wholesale American type-making over 

 there. Your views startle me 1 I have somehow received the impression 

 that " Gattung- und Arten-macherei " was the highest ambition of the 

 entomologist, and to rob our transatlantic confreres of that sweet satis- 

 faction would be cruel. And beside, what have types to do with the 

 matter ; they would only the sooner consign the myriads of mihis to the 

 maelstrom of synonyms. ' 



In the recent transactions of the French Entomological Society 

 there are "diagnoses" of eighty-six "new " species of Diptera, nearly all 

 North American TachinidcB and Dexidce. They average about sixty 

 words to the "description," and some of them do not exceed fifteen. 

 Now, while it may be true that the species of these families are easily 



