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maintain that where description and type disagree in important 
particulars, the former should take precedence. 
Acalypta lillanis Bueno. 
In their first paper Osborn and Drake properly treat the long- 
and short-winged forms as conspecific, but the drawing on page 221 
is very inaccurate as regards the structure of the head, which, of 
course, is precisely similar in the two forms of the species. The 
differences in head and antennal structure to be noted in com- 
paring this figure with that on the next page do not exist in nature. 
This is no doubt due in part to the fact that the artist, being 
unfamiliar with the subject, drew the two specimens from some- 
what different points of view. The authors are then entirely 
unjustified in announcing, on page 9 of their second paper, that de 
la Torre Bueno’s species is composite, the more so as they have 
not studied his extensive type series which I can state, after care- 
ful examination, to be perfectly homogeneous, as is a good series 
of the species in Mr. H. G. Barber’s collection. Moreover, there 
is nothing in the original description! on which the assumption 
can be based, and it thus appears that as in some other cases 
undue attention has been given drawings of doubtful accuracy. 
Whether or not the type specimen of A. ovata O. & D. represents 
a species distinct from Jlillianis is another question. It is a little 
broader posteriorly than is usual in the short-winged form of the 
latter species and the first antennal segment is slightly different 
in form, but it agrees with the figure little better and presents no 
characters that I would consider of specific importance. 
Fenestrella O. & D. 
In their description of this extraordinary genus the founders omit 
to mention the following important characters: the buccule are 
contiguous anteriorly, much as in Melanorhopala, for stance; the 
metasternal orifices are obsolete; the surface of the hemielytra is 
deeply channelled, the main veins being raised on very prominent 
roof-like elevations, a condition which would be somewhat modified 
in the as yet unknown long-winged form. The drawing of the 
type species on page 223 of the first paper is inaccurate in numerous 
particulars: the general form is in reality much less elongate, the 
1 Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., Vol. 11, 1916, p. 39. 
