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ting schmetterling. I happened to strike Townsend when 
he was working on Tachinidae and got many of them 
identified, nine being types of new species. 
Descriptions of bees in which the sexes are separated 
as distinct species are worthless for identification. 
Nomenclature is synonymical, not binomial. No one 
has any authority to ignore priority*, but the historically 
correct name often has no relation to the literature. 
ACANTHACEAE. 
CaLopHanes Ostonerroia, Ma., R.—The stems rise 
1 dm. or less, and bear three or four flowers open 
at a time. The corolla is 2 to 3 cm. long, expands 
2m. The throat is 1 em. long and 7 to 8 mm. wide, 
narrowing rather strongly to the tube which is 1 em. 
long. The corolla is blue, but the throat below is marked 
with purple. The flowers are nototribe and proteran- 
drous. The throat is so wide that a bee which presses 
its thorax against the anthers readily effects pollina- 
tion. Butterflies can suck the nectar without much prob- 
ability of effecting pollination. Mr. 15-Ap. 29, 17 spe- 
cies, 100 individuals observed, Ap. 4-9. 
Lone-roneurp Bess (4:14)—Anthophor.: Centris ¢ 1; 
Bomb.: Bombus americanorum ? 1; Eucer. (2): Melis- 
sodes sp. 1, M. variabilis 11. Swort-roncuep Bezxs 
(3:5, ? )—Halict.: Agapostemon 1, Odontalictus 1, Oxy- 
Stoglossa austrina 3, n. Orner Hymenoptera (1:1)— 
“There are people who ignore history just as there are 
people who legislate to make more than one-half of one 
per cent of alcohol intoxicating instead of being appro- 
priated as food, to limit a patient’s needs to one pint in 
10 days, and to propagate the fake biology which 1 satis 
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