Change of name of <I>Ficus? Hesperia</I>, from the vicinity of Ashland, Oreg

86 General

Notes.

The

_proper

name

for the Arctic

Horned Owl.

Swainson's

name

Strix {Bubo) ^arctiea

(Fauna

Boreali-Americana,

II, 86, Feb., 1832) forthe Arctic

Horned

_Owl,

which

has been unhesi- tatinglyused

by

ornithologists^forthe boreal form of

Bubo

virginianvs, appears ^{to rest}on aninsecure foundation, since Forster ⁱⁿ1817 (Synopti- calCatalogue^{of British} Birds, 47)

made

use of the term

Bubo

arcticus forthe

Snowy

^{Owl. Forster's}

name was

rather timidly proposed ^{as a}

new

onefor Strix nyctea, and as ithasseveral yearspriorityover that of Swainson it follows that our _present

Bubo

_mrginianvs m-ctictis will re- quireanothername. Hoy's

Bubo

subarcticus,

which

passed current^for theWestern

Horned Owl

until shov/n by Mr. Stone to be

synonymous

with Swainson'sarctiea willapparentlyhaveto supplant ^{the latter. If} thisview should prove ^to be the correct one the Arctic

Horned Owl

ought^infuturetobecalled

Bubo

virgininnu»subarctieiu<(Hoy).

—

Charles

W.Richmond.

A new name

for

Buthotrephis

^{divaricata D.}

W.

Ina paperdescribing

some

_supposed fossil algtefrom the

Upper

^Silu- rian (Eurypterid beds)^at

Kokomo,

Indiana, the writer recentlygave^the

name

ButJwtrepMs^divaricata to a type resembling ⁱⁿ form and _appar- entlyintexturethe_living Coditnntomentoxuin.

The name

Buthotrephis divaricata

was

preoccupied by Kidston ⁱⁿ¹⁸⁸⁶(Gat. PakeozoicPI. Brit.

Mus., p. 243) fora speciesfrom the

Wenlock

shale (UpperSilurian) ⁱⁿ Shropshire. Thereforethe

name

Buthotrephis spcciosa ^is here given to the plantfrom

Kokomo

described in the Proceedings ^{of the}U. S.

Na-

tional

Museum,

^Vol.

XXIV,

p.265,pi.xvi, 1901.

The

figure illustrating thisspecies

was

reduced to three fourths the natural _size, contrary ^to the explananation

which

reads "naturalsize".

—

David WJdte.

Change

^of

name

of Fscus? hesperia

from

_vicinljty of

Ashland,

Oregon.

In

my

^"Floraofthe

^Montana

Formation" _(U. S. Geo!. Surv., Bulletin No. 163, p. 45, pi. ix,fig. 5,1900)^Igive the

name

Ficus_hesperiit toa

new

species ^{of fossil} plant from the north fork of Dutton _Creek,

Laramie

Plains,

Wyoming.

^In

my

paper on ^the "Fossil Plants Associatedwith theLavas of the Cascade Range", (U. ^S. Geol. Surv., 20thAnn. _Kept., Pt. Ill,p. 45, pi. ^ii,fig. 4, 1900), ^I

employed

^the

same name

{Ficus?^hes- peria) foradifferentspeciesfrom the vicinity of Ashland, Oregon.

As

thefirst mentioned publication antedates the other ⁱⁿ appearance, the species^so

named

inthelatterpaper

must

be changed. ^Itherefore pro- pose ^{for it} the

name

Ficus? Aj)plegatei, \n honor of the collecter, Mr.

Elmer

I. Applegate.

—

F. II.

KnowUon.