7), 
‘The King is dead | Long live the King !” carried hope and joy to 
many hearts. Notso, ‘‘The new species is dead ; long live the syno- 
nym.” Perhaps no feature of the study of entomology carries greater 
terrors with it than does the mastery of the overburdened synonymy. 
Many a good student and capable naturalist has turned away from it all 
in disgust and what has been the gain of some other science has been 
our loss. All of which teaches the Jesson that should be ever before us 
—there are many writings of the Fathers in Entomology to be searched 
through, large public and private collections to be examined, and an 
enormous mass of current literature to be mastered before it is safe to 
say that at present less than one half the species described in the last ten 
years outside of Africa, are likely to maintain their specific validity, and 
no inconsiderable portion of these new species are built on synomical 
piles that are already reared nigh unto toppling. 
In closing I wish to state where the names of vanil/e and imsularis 
are used herein, they are used in the sense employed by Mr. Maynard. 
There is no doubt in my mind that it was the insular form, in an ex- 
treme departure, that was originally used as the type of vale and it is 
that which should be known as such. If it is thought best to separate 
as a variety our North American continental extreme form, that should , 
be called passifore, as was done by Fabricius in 1793. 
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FOOD-PLANTS OF LEPIDOPTERA, No. 12. 
(Samia Cynthia Dr.) 
By Witri1Am BEUTENMULLER. 
Rutacez. 
Ptelea trifoliata Z. (Hop Tree). 
Phellodendron amurensis Au. 
llicinee. 
Ilix opaca Az, (American Holly). 
Simarubee, 
Ailanthus glandulosus Desf 
Magnoliacee. 
Liriodendron tulipifera Z. (Tulip Tree). 
Berberidez. 
Berberis vulgaris Z, (Barberry). 
