52 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF ST. LOUIS. 

 At the meeting of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, on the 

 evening of January 6, 1902, Mrs. Wm. Bouton, on behalf of herself and a 

 considerable number of other persons, presented to the Academy a 

 collection of 633 butterflies mounted on Denton tablets, on condition 

 that the collection should be made accessible to the public. — William 

 Trelease, Recording Secretary. 



A CORRECTION. 



Before venturing to send my Synonymic Notes for publication, I 

 made a careful search of the entomological literature accessible to me, 

 but a iew days after I had returned the corrected proof, I found in a 

 work which I had just added to my library the name Eudurtes, Lee, 

 cited as a synonym of Eunyssobia, Casey. 



I immediately telegraphed to the editor to suppress the name 

 Epeuc/uetes which I had proposed, and that I would pay the expense of 

 resetting and reprinting the pages involved. I was too late, unfortunately, 

 as the number was complete and ready for mailing, and as its issue had 

 already been retarded by other causes, the editor did not deem it 

 expedient to further delay it. 



Since the appearance of my notes I have been favoured with a letter 

 from Mr. Samuel Henshaw, informing me that the name Euchcetias pro- 

 posed by me is unnecessary, and that Harris's name, Etuhcetes, is tenable 

 on account of Dejean's Euchcetes being a " nomen nudum," a mere list 

 name, and that the date of Dejean's work was 1833, not 1834. 



Dejean's work was not accessible to me, but I thought I was safe in 

 depending upon Dr. Scudder's "Nomenclator Zoologicus," in which the 

 first use of the term is credited to Dejean in 1834, and I supposed that 

 the first use of a term given would be valid. I am by no means sure that 

 the invalidity of mere catalogue names has always and universally been 

 recognized, though I quite agree that they should not be accepted. I 

 may say that the entomological editors of the Century Dictionary followed 

 Dr. Scudder's work in regard to this name. 



It is with the keenest regret that I find myself in what Dr. Skinner 

 has delicately referred to as the " synonymic consomme." 



Montreal, 23rd Jan., 1902. H. H. Lyman. 



Mailed February 41I1, 190J 



