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for American Lepidopterists this is important, a number of 

 North American species having been figured on the early 

 plates. I utterly fail to agree with Hampson that the vv'hole of 

 the "\'erzeichniss" should be credited to 1827 simply because 

 he has found no previous reference in the contemporaneous 

 literature ; Hitbner's method of distributing his work in small 

 portions has been too fully commented on by Herrich-Schaef- 

 fer (Corr. Bl. Zool. min. \"er. Regens.. 1869, p. 209) and 

 others to permit of the doubt that the parts were not distrib- 

 uted as they appeared from the press but were held over until 

 the completion of the volume. Until therefore some nuich 

 more conclusive contrary evidence is given, I believe the dates 

 given by Sherborn and Prout (1912, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (8), 

 ix, 179-180) should be accepted as correct. 



In conclusion I should like to state my con\iction that the 

 generic names proposed in the '"Zutraege" are perfectly valid : 

 they are proposed in connection with a specific name of which 

 a perfectly identifiable figure is given and in most instances are 

 definitel}' monobasic ; in my opinion they should certainly take 

 priority over the same names often used at a later date in the 



"X'erzeichniss." 



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Mosquitoes and the War. 



Freeing the Hog Island shipbuilding zone of disease-breeding- 

 mosquitoes was decided upon at a meeting of the State war board 

 in Harrisburg yesterday. The work will be done under the direc- 

 tion of the State Department of Health with experts who aided 

 Surgeon General William C. Gorgas in cleaning up the Panama Canal 

 zone. 



It will be the bigsrest fight against mosquitoes ever undertaken in 

 Pennsylvania. The State war board has in charge the $2,000,000 war 

 defense appropriation. It decided to contribute $75,000 to the $210,- 

 ono fund being raised to wipe out the pests. The State Health De- 

 partment will put $25,000 into this project, the city of Phi'n.delphia 

 $50,000, the Emergency Fleet Corporation $50,000 and the Westing- 

 house Electric Company $10,000. 



The appropriation was made following conferences arranged b\ 

 acting Commissioner of Health Rover and the engineers of the Fed- 

 eral Government, Pennsylvania. New Jersey and this city relative 

 to the elimination of the mosquitoes, which if allowed to breed would 

 stop the night shifts working on the Federal shijjs and cut the effi- 

 ciency of the plant down by half. 



The monev will be expended in a drainage and pumi)mg station. 

 Two wells will be dug and two pumping stations erected and the 

 swamp water treated with oil to kill the larvae. 



—rtiblic Ledger, Philadelphia, April 18, iyi8. 



