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"When every morning brought a noble chance, 

 And every chance brought out a noble" 



theme from Mr. Scudder's pen. 



In the spring of 1897 Mr. Scudder made a proposal which led 

 to my spending the summer on the Pacific Coast in search of the 

 Orthoptera of that region. On the way out I stopped for a few 

 days in southern New Mexico with Professor Cockerell and col- 

 lected there. The material thus secured, amounting to several 

 thousand specimens, was shared between us, the bulk of it re- 

 maining in my collection, but was determined almost wholly by Mr. 

 Scudder, though the Xiphidiini and Tettiginae were worked up by 

 me at his special request. No report on the collection as a whole 

 has ever been prepared but upon it were based in large part a 

 series of short papers by Mr. Scudder during the late 90's, papers 

 which form a very considerable contribution to the knowledge 

 of the orthoptera of that region. The weekly, sometimes daily, 

 postal card bulletins which Mr. Scudder sent me during the proc- 

 ess of identification, announcing progress and new discoveries, 

 remain among my treasured mementoes of a delightful and all 

 too brief association with one of the truly great men of his time. 



SYNONYMICAL, AND OTHER NOTES ON THE 

 TIPULID^ (DIPTERA). 



By Charles P. Alexander, 

 Ithaca, N. Y. 



The question as to whether, or not, the name Limnophila, Mac- 

 quart (Nat. Hist. Dipt., Vol. I, p. 95, 1834) can be retained for 

 the well-known genus of crane-flies, has faced every student of 

 Tipulidce since the time of Rondani. Rondani in his "Prodromus 

 Dipterol. Italicse" (Corrigenda, IV, 1861) stated that this generic 

 name was preoccupied in the Mollusca and proposed the new 

 name, Limnomya. 



A careful study of conchological literature failed to find any 

 mention of a genvs Limnophila, but constant reference to a sub- 

 order of that name. G. W. Tryon, Jr., "Structural and Systematic 



