DURING the past few years the attention of American dermatologists has been directed toward a rather wide variety of cutaneous lesions which have been difficult to catalogue in the previously accepted classifications of disorders of the skin but which have in common a granulomatous aspect and structure in which are found, on histologic examination, a striking number of eosinophils. As a purely descriptive convention, it has been convenient to adopt a term which was first used by Nanta and Gadrat,1 in the European literature, namely, eosinophilic granulomas of the skin. Lewis2 was the first to present a case under this title in this country, and Weidman3 and Lewis and Cormia4 read excellent articles on this unusual condition before this association in 1946. A study of the cases which have been reported with this designation reveals such variations with respect to appearance, course and association with other findings that it is readily apparent