My good friend Mr. Howard, in his article entitle “The Chalcid Genus Rileya,” published in the October Can. Ent., p. 191, makes several inaccurate statements; and, in the lines “An interesting interference in the adoption of the generic name Rileya has recently taken place between Mr. Ashmead and myself,” implies that I knowingly appropriated this name for a genus in the Eurytominœ, after he had decided to us it for one in the Encyrtinœ when I had no such knowledge, therby placing me in an unenviable position before my colleagues.