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grounds, and visitors were catching and feeding them to the monkeys. 
I found one of the officials and learned that they were much alarmed at 
the ravages of this insect and were about to take active measures for their 
destruction. They proposed then to shower the trees with clear water 
to wash the moths down to the ground where they could be crushed. | 
asked whether they had used poisonous insecticides for the destruction 
of the Jarva but he said that they had not, and he had never heard of 
such a thing. I suggested that if they should liberate the monkeys and 
send them up into the trees they would destroy more than they could 
wash down. 
This he took in sober earnest and explained to me at great length 
why the plan could not be successful. My joke was a failure. 
The celebrated Insectarium in the Zoological Gardens in London 
was very disappointing to me. From all I had read of this establish- 
ment I was expecting to gain some very valuable hints on the best meth- 
ods of breeding insects, but I was astonished at the crudeness of the 
whole affair. 
Finally I think I have reason to feel proud of my American breth- 
ren, both the systematic and the economic workers, and trust they will 
continue their good work. : 
Hoping that you may have a successful meeting, I remain, 
Yours truly, 
C. H. FERNALD.” 
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SYNONYMICAL NOTES. 
By Gro. H. Horn, M. D. 
In a letter from Dr. E. Bergroth, Forssa, Finland, my attention was 
called to the apparent neglect ol a few North American Coleoptera, de- 
scribed by Drapiez in the ‘‘Annales générales aux Sciences Physiques ” 
Brussels, 181g—1821, and to the fact that the name of but one of them 
appears in the Henshaw List. ‘They are as follows: 
Melolontha minima Drap., loc. cit., Vol. I, p. 291, pl. XI, fig. 2 = 
Strigoderma prgmea Fab. 
Lamia canteriaitor Drap., loc. cit., Vol. II, p. 47, pl. XVI. fig. 6, 
is now a Zetraopes. 
Tenebris striatellus Drap., loc. cit., Vol. 5, p. 327, pl. LXXXIII, 
fig. 5 — Nyctobates pensylvanica De Geer. 
Melolontha quadrimaculata Drap., loc. cit., Vol. VII, p. 276, pl. 
CIX, fig. 2 == Anomala /ucicoia Fab. 
From the synonomy given it is very evident why the names have not 
appeared in Henshaw’s List. There are very many other isolated de- 
scription of our species which are not yet publicly accounted for, not- 
ably in the writings of Motschulsky, to which it is my desire to give at- 
ion when time can be spared from more serious work, 
