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exemplar of these unharmonious spirits is a certain editor-doctor 

 known in Washington, who long ago set forth his unvarnished 

 opinion of a lady's book. 



It is truly an invidious task to pick the flaws in the work of 

 estimable gentlemen with whom one has no quarrel, yet the pur- 

 suit of science compels one to seek the exact truth, and having 

 approximated it, it should be set forth plainly and without tender 

 leanings toward one's own little foibles or toward the weaker 

 brethren's limitations. 



We miss in our entomological magazines the stout swash- 

 buckler, who made no bones of smashing, and sometimes- in not 

 too urbane language, the pretty little conceits of his fellows. We 

 are become buggish mollycoddles. We see the other fellow fail 

 to follow the light, and we shrug our shoulders and pass by — 

 perhaps not without some tropistic anticipation that he may fall 

 into the nearest pit. But we haven't the hardihood to push him 

 in ; or to stop him forthright in his career. We are too refined. 



But we should be ever ready to enlighten, and to correct, and 

 if necessary, to discipline, those who transgress, who fall from 

 entomological grace, so to speak. 



In fact, we should do justice though the heavens fall. 



J. R. T. B. 



NEW NAME FOR NEMOSOMA PUNCTULATA. 



I wish to substitute the name of Nemosoma punctulata Van 

 Dyke, for Nemosoma punctafum Van Dyke, described in Bull. 

 Brook. Ent. Soc, Vol. XI, p. 71 (1916), because punctatum is 

 preoccupied, having been used by Leveille in Anns. Soc. Ent. Fr., 

 vol. X, 1888, p. 411 (appeared 1889), for a Brazilian species. 



Edwin C. Van Dyke. 



