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Wilmington male may belong to some species described from 
the female only. This is a difficult matter to decide in the 
absence of actual specimens of those species. I am, therefore, 
not able to say more than that your male does not agree with 
the descriptions or specimens of any male Gomphoides. * * * 
“In any event, your Wilmington specimen is the most 
northern record for this genus known to me, and therefore 
a very interesting capture.” 
It is to be hoped that entomologists visiting the Wilming- 
ton region, and particularly the neighborhood of Greenfield 
Pond, will keep a sharp lookout for species of Gomphoides 
and related genera, as it is quite possible that the individual 
taken by me had been bred in the vicinity, and was not an 
accidental migrant from the West Indies.* 
THE Department of Zoology and Entomology of the Ohio State 
University has recently received as a donation a fine collection of 
Lepidoptera from Mrs. Catherine Tallant, of Richmond, Indiana. The 
collection was made by Mr. W. M. Tallant during a series of years 
in the nineties and up to about 1905. It contains mainly species occur- 
ring in central Ohio, especially at Columbus, but has also a number of 
species from different parts of the United States and also some fine 
examples of species occurring in South America, Japan, China, India, 
Ceylon and Africa. The collection contains about 10,000 specimens in 
most excellent condition, very beautifully mounted, and many of the 
species contain very full series, showing variations, etc., which will 
make them of special value for scientific study. They are, for the most 
part, carefully identified. well. preserved and will be kept under the 
name of the “Tallant Collection” in good cases and cabinets. Taken 
with the other collections in Lepidoptera, the collection of Odonata left 
by Professor Kellicott, and those in various groups which have been 
accumulated by the efforts of the members of the Department, the 
university is now provided with an excellent collection of insects in- 
cluding representatives in all the different orders. The total number 
of specimens probably approaches close to 100,000—H. O. 
*[ According to Mr. Muttkowski’s new catalogue of the Odonata of 
North America (Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Mil- 
waukee, Vol. 1, art.1) the name Gomphoides Selys must be transferred 
to what de Selys and others have called Progomphus Selys. For the 
old Gomphoides Mr. Muttkowski proposes Negomphoides. If my 
view, set forth in the ‘Biologia, that Gomphoides Selys, Cyclophylla 
Selys, and Aphylla Selys are but one genus be accepted, the name 
Negomphoides is superfluous as Cyclophylla has priority—P, P. Cat- 
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