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"Calcifying epithelioma" does not occur in the index of practically all English texts. An example of this entity recently came to our attention and is herewith described. REPORT OF A CASE Miss R. F., aged 30, white, a school teacher, consulted Dr. Richard L. Sutton Sr., on April 15, 1933. She complained of a small tumor on the radial aspect of the dorsum of the right forearm. This lesion was a hard, round nodule the size of a hazelnut (about 1 cm. in diameter) projecting as a red, flattened hemisphere about 3 mm. above the level of the surface of the arm. The skin overlying it was thin and shining, and of pale cherry color with a few dilated capillaries running over the protuberance. The margin curved gently into the surrounding normal tissue, and the redness faded abruptly at the edge. On palpation (and the finger-tips tell as much as

An unusual case recently came to my notice in the practice of Dr. Richard L. Sutton Sr. REPORT OF A CASE HISTORY.— Mrs. W. L. H., a white woman, 45 years of age, a housewife, presented herself complaining of lumps in the skin of her neck. The nodules were grouped on the right side of the neck and scattered in a band extending from the vertebra prominens to the region of the sternoclavicular articulation (fig. 1). They had been present since childhood, and were slowly enlarging. A few new ones were appearing as flattened ovoid tumors about 2 mm. in diameter. The only symptom was slight tenderness on pressure, and the reasons for requesting examination were that new lesions were appearing and that the condition was unsightly.On examination the lesions were found to be relatively soft and elastic, and not palpably cystic. They were rounded and apparently encapsulated, discrete

The presence of vitiligo in association with leukoderma centrifugum acquisitum (Sutton Sr.) is very uncommon,1 and might be attributed to more than a mere coincidence. The following case is reported because of the rarity of vitiligo with leukoderma centrifugum acquisitum and to further stimulate our interest in the broad field of melanogenesis and leukoderma.Report of a CaseChild, aged 10 years, white. Parents have been aware of a pigmented nevus on her right scapular area as well as smaller pigmented nevi on her chest and left thigh all of her life. However, since May, 1956, the "mole" on the right scapular area began to enlarge, became pink in color and crusted, and was surrounded by a gradual enlarging area of leukoderma (Fig. 1). Coincidentally a small halo of leukoderma appeared over the small pigmented nevus on her mid left thigh posteriorly. Since August, 1956, new lesions of