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that the name Dactylota is preoccupied in Echinodermata, and 

 should rightly be changed. In such cases, it is better to retain 

 substantially the same name, altering the termination somewhat, 

 so that the two genera need not be coniessed. According to 

 this rule, Dactylota, Snellen, might become Dactylotula. 



A. R. Grote describes three new species of Noctuidce, Agro- 

 tis agilis from Vancouver, Xylomiges fletcheri, also from Van- 

 couver, and Orthosia hamifera from California. The last is allied 

 to O. purpurea; but larger. " Canad. Entom.," 1888. 128-131. 



I. B. Leiberg. Mosses in Northern Idaho, Neckera menziesii 

 fruiting there. " Bot. Gazette," 1888. 165. 



W. O. Emerson. Albino birds oi nine species, and a melanic 

 robin in California. "Ornith. & Oologist," 1888. 82-93. 



L. O. Howard. — "The Chalcid genus Rileya." in " Canad. 

 Entom.," Oct., 1888., pp. 191-195, and fig. Rileya, Howard, 

 was based on a species (Rileya splendens), found by Mr. Koe- 

 bele at Los Angeles, California, and the present paper enters 

 into a discussion as to which has priority, this or Rileya, 

 Ashmead, a genus of Eurytomince proposed by Mr. Ashmead, 

 about the same time in Bull. 3 of the Kansas Experiment Station, 

 and briefly defined somewhat earlier in a table of genera in 

 "Entomologica Americana." Mr. Howard, discussing in the fair- 

 est spirit, claims priority for his own genus, but we are bound to 

 say that we should be rather inclined to admit Mr. Ashmead's 

 priority of description, whatever our wishes on the subject might 

 be. At the same time, we rather doubt the propriety of pub- 

 lishing descriptions oi new genera and species in the Bulletins of 

 Experiment Stations, where they are not accessible to entomolo- 

 gists at-large. T. D. A. C. 



EDITORIAL. 



The promised index,thanks to our correspondent, Theo. D. A. 

 Cockerell, is in the printer's hands. 



Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Secretary of the American Ornitholo- 

 gist's Union and Chief of the Bureau of Ornithology and Mam- 

 malogy, has spent a few weeks this summer along the coast, from 

 Puget Sound southward. His visit in the country, with relatives 

 at Escondido, was cut short by the illness of his sister. 



Richard A. Proctor, the eminent astronomer, was one of the 

 victims of fever in New York City. 



Dr. C. C. Parry has botanized in the central part of the State 

 this summer ,studying certain genera — Ceanotheus Arctostaphylos, 

 etc., and has returned to his home in Davenport, Iowa. Prof. 

 Greene has been in the field, we understand, but the results are 

 not yet public. Dr. Edward Palmer has visited several localities, 

 but found conditions unfavorable for botanizing. Walter E. Bry- 

 ant made a successful trip into Lower California, collecting birds. 

 If others have been doing anything let us hear from them. Alto- 

 gether science has not been very industriously pursued on our 

 coast the past summer. 



