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at tip and not distinctly laminate. The 5 organ has the barbs of the 
corneous lateral valves very remote from the tips. 
' From the foregoing it would seem that / calceafus is more nearly 
allied to certain Dromeolus than to F. orchesides. 
Corymbites divaricatus Lec.—On comparing notes with. Mr. 
Ulke it was observed that the © of this species is the crassus of Leconte. 
Although placed in different sections of the genus the suggestion of their 
identity once made, the conclusion is inevitable. The ( antenne are 
serrate and longer than the head and thorax, the second joint is shorter 
and thicker than the third, the third is a little shorter than the fourth, 
gradually thicker towards the tip, but not broad like the fourth and fol- 
lowing joints. The thorax of the QJ 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 strize 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 colour, 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 antennz are about two-thirds as long 
as in the (j', very feebly serrate, the fourth and following joints much 
shortened and hence the third joint is quite as long as the fourth, but 
narrower. The tarsi, especially the anterior ones, are shorter im the <. 
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To Whom it May Concern. 
Epiror ENToMoLoGicaA AMERICANA: 
In a recent 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! 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 Zachinide and Dexide. 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 
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