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econd stage. The occurrence of Aspidiotus forbesi at 
Da " ape that early date throws a doubt which, so far as the 
riter sees, cannot be removed, on the identity of Fitch’s 
a reularis. Examination of the records showed that forbesi is 
a eet well represented in New York, and that currant is 
hl its food plants, and there is therefore a possibility, 
Asem it may be, that Fitch's circularis may have been 
i instead of ancylus. 
e writer has made a careful examination of the larval 
t of specimens of forbesi and ancylus, and is unable, 
m the mutilated state of the Fitch specimen, to find any 
is for assigning it definitely to one of these species as 
. t the other. In making the microscopic preparation of 
¥ h’s circularis the waxy setretion dissolved and disappeared, 
that remains is the mutilated larval exuvium. If this 
‘2 am were of the second stage its identification would be 
re easy. As it stands, the problem must remain 
me ovnigt one. That ancylus equals circularis the writer has lit- 
¢ doubt, but as long as there is a chance of error he does not 
sl warranted in reducing Putnam's name to synonymy. There 
s one good side to the case, however, and that is that Put- 
‘Species must now always remain valid, and it certainly 
ao have been a pity to have robbed Putnam, who, if he had 
ae oo would doubtless have made a distinct name in science, of 
his only species. 
oe ‘There is one other Aspidiotus to which Fitch’s specimen 
“might now apply, namely, Aspidiotus ostreaeformis Curtis. The 
latter is, however, a European species, the presence of which 
_ in this country was first determined in 1899, the evidence point- 
_ ing to its introduction some eight or ten years earlier. Its con- 
sideration in connection with circularis, therefore, may be dis- 
a Pror. W. M. Wueexer has been appointed to the professorship of 
economic entomology in the Graduate School of Applied Sciences in 
‘4 Harvard University. We congratulate Dr. Wheeler and also the 
— University. He has also succeeded Dr. H. G. Dyar as editor of the 
ig Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 
