Kurt Auffenberg wrote, "Tom, is this critter [Petasipoma bombardopolense Bartsch, 1946] Hispanolan? A small village on the northern peninsula of Haiti has a similar name. I went there. I don't need to go back." Interesting. The French gave Haiti some whimsical placenames, such as Limonade -- in English, lemonade. If memory serves, there was a Duke of Limonade after the revolution. Bombardopolis could be another example. So it could be that Bartsch had no sense of humor at all. Andrew K. Rindsberg Geological Survey of Alabama