174 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Mr. Smith said, the Noctuidse alone considered, it made no practical 

 difference which edition was used, and so far as Tortricidae were con- 

 cerned, he did not think that any practical difficulty would arise, which- 

 ever edition was used. 



Prof Fernald expressed surprise that so much discussion should have 

 arisen over Hiibner's works, and that his names should have been so uni- 

 versally rejected, while Guenee's names in the Index met ho dims, unac- 

 companied by a word of description, Avere recognised and used without 

 question. Hiibner at least gave some sort of definition to his divisions, 

 genera or coiti, so called. 



Dr. Horn suggested that there might be some analogy to the cases of 

 Erichson and Motschulsky ; both of these had created some genera, not, 

 or incompletely described, but while Erichson's genera had been uni- 

 versally adopted, those of Motschulsky had been as universally discarded. 

 The reason was, Erichson's genera usually meant something and had some 

 sohd foundation, and he himself had credited to Erichson some genera 

 first described by him (Dr. Horn) under the names proposed by Erichson. 

 Motschulsky's genera, on the contraiy, were based upon the flimsiest 

 characters as a rule, and had no value whatever. 



Mr. Smith said that as to the Noctuidae at least, the parallel would 

 hold. Hiibner's genera were very largely devoid of all foundation, while 

 Guenee', as a rule, made pretty good genera and mostly described them. 



Prof. Fernald thought this not true of the Tortricidse ; that quite as 

 many names of Guenee were baseless as of those proposed by Hiibner. 



Mr. J. H. Emerton announced that the types of a large number of the 

 species described by him in his work on the " New England Spiders of 

 the Family Therididae," and all the types of a paper now in press, were 

 at the Academy of Natural Sciences, and he would be happy to exhibit 

 them to any who would make an appointment with him for that purpose. 



On motion, the meeting was adjourned until 2.30 p. m., Sept. 4th, to 

 meet then at the Entomological Rooms in the Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences, the use of this room having been offered by Messrs. Horn and 

 Aaron on behalf of the A. E. S. 



Pursuant to adjournment, the Club met at the rooms of the Am. Ent. 

 Soc. at 2.30 p. m., Sept. 4th, Dr. Morris in the chair. The minutes of the 

 previous meeting were read and adopted. 



The committee appointed at the last meeting reported that they did 



