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under the code, but my point is that the whole of that list is absolutely 
invalid so far as the date 1800 is concerned, and 1800 cannot be a date 
that gives precedence. 
Some of the laws of the code lack definiteness and I am glad to think 
that the subject is to be brought before the Oxford Congress, for we 
must remember that the number of species entomologists have to deal 
with is much greater than that of all the other branches of Zoology com- 
bined, and I trust that one of the results of that congress will be the 
establishment of an Entomological Council for nomenclature, who 
should carefully revise the present code and bring it up to present needs 
so far as we are concerned, after which the International Commission 
should be approached so as to try and bring the two bodies into some 
working agreement with the object of bringing out an amended code 
binding on all zoologists who are not a “law unto themselves.”—G. T. 
BETHUNE-BakER, Edgbaston, England. 
AMERICANS AT THE INTERNATIONAL CoNGRESS OF ENtToMoLoGy.—In 
addition to those mentioned on page 178 of the April News, we are 
informed that the following will attend the meeting at Oxford, August 
5-10, 1912; Prof. S. A. Forbes, Urbana, Illinois; Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, 
Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa; Dr. A. Fenyes, Pasadena, California; 
Mr. Charies T. Ramsden, Guantanamo, Cuba; Prof. G. C. Cramp- 
ton, Amherst, Massachusetts; Dr. L. O. Howard, Washington; Prof. 
W. M. Wheeler, Harvard University; and Prof. J. G. Needham, Cornell 
University. 
Foop PLANT or DyspERcus MIMuS Say.—The genus Dysdercus is 
well known for its attacks on cotton and cther malvaceous plants, but 
although D. mimus is widely distributed, I do not find any reference 
to its food plant in the literature I have examined, including Mr. Bal- 
low’s apparently complete review of the subject in the West Indian 
Bulletin, 1906. It may therefore be worth while to report that in Feb- 
ruary of this year my wife found both young and adults of D. mimus 
at Gualan, Guatemala, living on /resine paniculata (1.)', one of the 
Amaranthaceae. The insects were kindly determined by Dr. Van 
Duzee, and the plant by Captain Donnell Smith—T. D. A. CockerreELt, 
Boulder, Colo. 
EnToMoLocIcat INVESTIGATION OF OKEFENOKEE SwaAmp.—A_ party 
left Cornell University, May 25th, for the purpose of investi- 
gating the biology of the Okefenokee Swamp in southeastern Georgia. 
The fauna and flora of this extensive and in many respects unique 
swamp have heretofore almost entirely escaped the attention of natur- 
alists. ‘The eastern part of the swamp consists of vast inundated 
“prairies,” while on the western side there are extensive heavily 
