204 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 
Winkley; for information regarding localities, O. Bangs, Miss 
Susy C. Fogg, E. F. Hitchings, Prof. S. I. Smith; for access to 
collections in their charge, Prof. W. E. Britton, Prof. C. H. 
Fernald, Prof. H. T. Fernald, Samuel Henshaw, Dr. Edith M. 
Patch, S. H. Scudder; for data on distribution, systematic char- 
acters, and information regarding terminology, Wm. T. Davis, 
B. B. Fulton, Morgan Hebard, J. A. G. Rehn; for aid derived 
from their published works. Prof. W. S. Blatchley, Wm. Beuten- 
miiller, A. N. Caudell, Prof. C. H. Fernald, B. B. Fulton, Dr. J. 
L. Hancock, Prof. C. A. Hart, Morgan Hebard, J. A. G. Rehn, 
S. H. Scudder, R. E. Snodgrass, B. H. Walden; for accented 
list of scientific names and quotation from Aristotle, Prof. K. M. 
Edwards; and for his resume of breeding experiments on inherit- 
ance of color in Chortophaga, Dr. P. W. Whiting. For the loan 
of cuts and plates thanks are due Dr. L. 0. Howard of the 
United States Bureau of Entomology, W. S. Blatchley, Prof. 
E. M. Walker, the State Entomologists of Minnesota and Con- 
necticut respectively, and the State Experiment Station at 
Geneva, N. Y., as duly accredited elsewhere. 
I am deeply grateful to all the persons mentioned. 
They have contributed appreciably to the information which I 
have here brought together in the hope that it will clear away 
difficulties and awaken interest in the New England insects of this 
group. Nor can I forget my debt to Professor M. A. Willcox, who 
set me in the path, and to Professor J. H. Comstock, my first 
instructor in the science of entomology, whose training led to 
many happy hours in the laboratories, fields, and ravines of 
Ithaca, and in after years in the wilderness trails of the far West 
and South. 
