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Vol.8: no.6
NOTICES
Bombycidae and Noctuidae from Italy, Austria, High Alps, and Turkey for sale. 1954 catch about 1800 specimens, many rarities, full data. Lots of 100 mixed specimens including Rhopalocera $4.50, 200 specimens $8.00. Dr. H. Wilcke, Kossen/Tyrol, AUSTRIA.
Offered: Fernald's "The Crambidse of North America" (1896; with colored plates) in exchange for named Micros or other Lepidoptera. Dr. Marion E. Smith, Department of Entomology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., U.S.A.
Wanted: adult specimens of Papilio hector, P. agamemnon, P. demoleus, P. epidaus fenochionis. Also Dismorphia amphione praxinoe, 9 and $. George L. Crowder, 913 South Hamilton, Marissa, 111., U.S.A.
Wish to contract immediately with museums, other institutions, and individuals to collect Lepidoptera and other insects and small animal life in the following regions: South and Central America; Mexico, Cuba, southern Florida; Hawaii; Africa; Alaska. Larry J. Kopp, R.D., Klingerstown, Penna., U.S.A.
Will send a copy of my annotated check list of the hundred butterflies of the Oglethorpe University campus in Georgia to anyone sufficiently interested to send a large self-addressed envelope and 94 postage to John P. Knudsen, 120 So. Boundary St., Chapel Hill, N. Car., U.S.A.
Wanted: perfect specimens of S 9 of Troides alexandrce from New Guinea. I will purchase if price is reasonable. Also desire Agrias from South America, single specimens $ 9 of the yellow and blue varieties. A.J. Carpenter, 236 Huntington Ave., Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
Wanted for cash: specimens, with full data, of Strymon falacer, S. edwardsii, Phyciodes batesii, Polygonia faunus, Asterocampa flora, Melitcea harrisi, and Enodia creola. No exchanges. Roderick R. Irwin, 411 North Bloomington St., Streator, Illinois, U.S.A.
LIVING MATERIAL
LIVING VUVJE OF PAPILIO EURYMEDON urgently needed for research purposes; will purchase or exchange. Lincoln P. Brower, Osborn Zoological Lab., Yale University, New Haven 11, Conn., U.S.A.
OFFICIAL ACTION ON NAMES OF LEPIDOPTERA
Notice has been received from FRANCIS HEMMING, Secretary of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, that applications have been received by the Commission for the use of its Plenary Powers to validate the name Melanargia Meigen, 1828 (Satyridae) and to preserve the name Polyommatus Latreille, 1804 (Lycaenidse) and continue suppressing Argus Boisduval, 1832. Any interested person who wishes to comment on the application for Polyommatus should do so as soon as possible by writing the Secretary at 28 Park Village East, Regent's Park, London, N.W. 1, England. This must be done before 22 April 1955. The deadline for Melanargia was 11 Nov. 1954.
W. T. M. Forbes' Part III (Noctuidae) of The Lepidoptera of New York has just been published and may be purchased for $1.50 from: The Mailing Room, Roberts Hall, N. Y. State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N. Y., U. S. A. Part II is still available for $1.50, and a few copies of Part I have been found and may be purchased for $1.75. Parts II and III together are sold for $2.75. A full review of Part III will appear in the News.