82 General Notes. [Janua 
and others subdivided, without reason or explanation. There is, 
in short, too much arbitrary opinion that is not unbiased. 
Yet with all these blemishes the list is an improvement 
names, as he now unwillingly adopts one that does not rést on 
“real structural characters.’ We think that many more, on t 
o 
hard Gerhard (Systematisches Verzeichniss der 
von Nord-Amerika, Leipzig, 1878) which was really the first 
lished general list of the Macrolepidoptera of North America, 
which, considering that it is by a foreigner by whom some omi 
sions and defects are excusable, has much to commend it. Mi 
Grote’s list was not printed and issued till August (as ack 
ledged in a postscript) though on the cover, which is usually 
aoe printed part of any work, “ May, 1882,” appears in 
etters ! 
Tue “ Ciusrer Fry.’—At a recent meeting of the Biol 
Society of Washington, D. C., Professor W. H. Dall ex 
terror to 
Dr. Frank Baker stated that he knew of the congregat 
this fly in houses in Maine in the same manner as descri 
Professor Dall. One of their peculiarities, he said, was tO 
