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Grote and Robinson of Thccla lorata, and their supposed identi- 

 fication of cdzvardsii with Thccla calanus, Westwood, * he 

 withdrew his proposed name, and said that calanus, West., must 

 be substituted. * 



But the man who did the most to unravel the tangle in con- 

 nection with these species, although at first he had confused 

 them, not only with each other, but even with Thecla acadica, 

 was Dr. Scudder, who illustrated them beautifully in his 

 sumptuous work on the Butterflies of New England, and gave 

 the fullest references to the literature, and it was he who sug- 

 gested the retention of the name originally proposed in cor- 

 respondence by Dr. Saunders. * 



Dr. Saunders' original description was read before the Lon- 

 don Branch of the Entomological Society of Ontario, and was 

 possibly communicated to both Mr. W. H. Edwards and Dr. 

 Scudder, but as it was never published it cannot be referred 

 to, but there can be little doubt as to the correctness of its 

 reference by Dr. Scudder to the form with which it has ever 

 since been associated, although Dr. Saunders himself identi- 

 fied it with T. calanus, West. 



Why calanus was credited to \Vestwood by Grote and Rob- 

 inson, I fail to understand, unless it may have been on the 

 supposition that he was the author of the generic combination, 

 which vicious practice Grote formerly followed, but if so, 

 they must have overlooked the use of the name in Doubleday's 

 List of the Lepidoptera of the British Museum, which I have 

 not had access to. The reference to Westwood was probably 

 based on its mention in the list of Theclas in the second volume 

 of the Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera popularly credited to 

 Doubleday, Hewitson & Westwood, of which the first volume 

 was by Doubleday; the second by Westwood, and the platr^ 

 only by Hewitson, but in that work it is correctly credited to 

 Hiibncr. 



In looking up the references, I have discovered several curi- 

 ous errors. 



The original reference is to ITiibncr's Samm. Ex. Sclimett.. 



* Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., i, 171-173. 

 t Can. Ent., i, 99. 

 Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., xiii, 274. 



