Hv, '43] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 77 Alabamae differs from navajo in the following particulars: the spots on the primaries are a little larger and somewhat yellower. The marginal border of the secondaries is more yel-lowish and there is a single crescent shaped spot near the costa on the under surface of the secondaries. Expanse : Holotype male 56 mm., paratype male, 50 mm. Described from two males, received from Mr. A. C. Fred-erick, Albany, New York, and collected by Mr. M. E. Smith at Anniston, ALABAMA on April 12, 1937. Holotype male and male paratype are in the collection of the author. The editor of the Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, in his December, 1942 number, calls attention "to the loose way that the word 'type' is so frequently used of late ... A large number of insects lie before me which bear the label 'type.' Not a single one of them is a 'type.' They are, in the opinion of the collector, specimens like the type, i.e. typical examples of the species and not the 'original specimen' or 'il-lustration' upon which the specific name was bestowed." Adult and Immature Stages of Cricotopus elegans n. sp. (Chironomidae, Diptera). By O. A. JOHANNSEN, Ithaca, N. Y. Specimens of an undescribed species of Cricotopus, the larvae of which were found mining in the leaves of Potamogcton, were sent to me for determination by Mr. C. O. Berg of Ann Arbor, Michigan. The species most closely resembles Cricotopus in-fitscatits (Trichocladiits rnfitscatits Malloch) and C. politns (Orthocladiiis politns Coq.) as well as the European C. obni.rns (Walk.), differing from them in the deeper color of the abdo-men and in leg or male antennal ratio, or in the structure of the terminalia of the male. The larva will find a place in my key (Aquatic Diptera, III, page 59) tracing to Spaniotonui, second paragraph of couplet 20, differing from the species in couplet 21
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