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contents to the whole work, the keys should treat 5551 leaf mines; but just a glance at the book shows that this number is understated, since in the text there are many leaf mines signed with additional letters, and the leaf mines on the Gramineas are not included in the enumeration at all. In comparison to the 1935-1937 edition, the number of the leaf mines has been almost doubled in the book. The mine producers treated in the keys belong to the orders Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, and Diptera. The author does not giive the entire number of insect species treated in his book, but from a systematical list in Volume III one can see that they belong to about 300 genera; 166 of them are Lepidoptera. The classification and the nomenclature applied in the book are the most recent, both for the insects and the plants.
In all fairness it must be said that the present book, together with Biology of the Leaf Miners (1951) by the same author and publisher, will form a firm basis for any research upon the leaf miners, and will stimulate a widespread study of this biological insect group, not limited to the countries for which the book is directly designated.
NICHOLAS S. OBRAZTSOV, 68 Glenlawn Avenue, Sea Cliff, N. Y., U. S. A.
ZELLERINA, NOMEN NOVUM FOR STENOPTYCHA ZELLER, 1863 (PYRALIDID^)
by Salvador Luis de la Torre y Callejas
Having in mind that the genus Stenoptycha Zeller, 1863 (non Heinemann, 1866), is preoccupied by Stenoptycha Agassiz, 1862, in Coelenterata, and not having seen any substituting name regarding Pyralididse literature, we hereby propose to use the name ZELLERINA instead.
The several species in the United States National Museum are: erschoffiana Zell. (from South America), coelodactyla Zell. (from North, South and Central America), serpentifera Hamps. (from Bahamas, Porto Rico and Cuba), ptero-phoralis Walk, (from St. Domingo, Jamaica, Cuba, North and Central America), doeri Walsingham (from Mexico and South America), incalis Hamps., and peruviana Zell. (from South America).
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