THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 179 



ON THECLA FALACER AND INORATA. 



BY A. R. GROTE, A. M. 



The object of this note is to draw attention to a paper printed at 

 Demopohs, Ala., Dec, 1870, in which I endeavored to reply to Mr. Scud- 

 der's objections to our determination of Hiibner's Plate of calamis. I 

 say : " The chances are against Hiibner's having iigured both sexes of 

 the usually unspotted T. ifiorata with the spotted secondaries of calanus 

 nob. Leconte has certainly iigured T. inorata, and, as we stated before, 

 Boisduval has used the specimen of Godart's T. falacei- ( T. Edwardsii 

 Auct.) while furnishing the text. Boisduval considered Leconte's Plate 

 as representing a form of T. falacer, and erroneously so, as Leconte 

 figured for the first and only time T. hiorata." Prof. Saunders afterwards 

 describes the larva of inorata in Can. Ent. I conclude that the two 

 species are correctly separated and named by us in Trans. Am. Ent. Soc- 

 I., 172, and give the synonymy. I wish to draw attention to this paper 

 of mine, to state that, in any case, Mr. Scudder's version of Hiibner's 

 Plate is uncertain, from the similarity of the two species. Also, that we, 

 having been the first in print to separate, name, and describe the two, our 

 determination, being certain, should henceforth obtain and have priority 

 as regards these two species of Thecla. The paper above referred to is 

 now out of print, but is in several libraries and was generally distributed. 



[Note. — Mr. Scudder writes in reply to our enquiry, that " there is 

 not the slightest doubt as to what species Hiibner figured under the name 

 of calamis ; it is certainly the inorata of Grote & Robinson." 

 "for the proper synonymy of these species, see Buffalo Bulletin, 1876, 

 p. no." — Editor per J. F.] 



BOOK NOTICES. 

 The following publications have been received : — " Belostomidae 

 and some other Fish Destroying Bugs," by George Dimmock ; " Maple 

 Sugar and the Sugar Bush," by Prof. A: J. Cook ; " Entomologica Ameri- 

 cana," vol. iv., Nos. I, 2 and 3 ; " The Conchologists' Exchange " ; Journal 

 of the Columbus, Ohio, Horticultural Society ; Bulletin of the Iowa Agri- 

 cultural College, Botanical Department ; Proceedings of the Natural Sci- 

 ence Association of Staten Island ; " The Owl," Glen Falls, N. Y.; " Sci- 

 ence Gossip," Chatto & Windus, London, England j " The Prairie Far- 

 mer"; " The American Agriculturist ; " " The Ottawa Naturalist ; " etc. 



