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A. R. Grote, Buffalo, N. Y.; Dr. G. M. Levette, Indianapolis, Ind.; C. V. 

 Riley, St. Louis, Mo.; O. S. Westcott, Chicago, III; J. A. Lintner, Albany, 

 N. Y.; H. F. Bassett, Waterbury, Conn.; (icorge Dimmock, Springfield, 

 Mass.; B. Pickman Mann, Cambridge, Mass.; ¥.. P. Austin, Cambridge, 

 Mass.; Dr. R. King, Kalamazoo, Mich.; Chas. P. Dodge, Washington, 

 D. C; Mr. Patton, Waterbury, Conn.; Rev. C. J. S. Bethune, M. A., Port 

 Hope, Ont.; W. Saunders, London. Ont. During the meetings of the 

 Association several interesting and valuable papers on Entomological 

 subjects were read by Dr. LeConte and Messrs. Scudder, Riley and Grote. 



THE LINNEAX SIGNIFICATION OF THE GENERIC TERM 



PAPILIO. 



BY H. HAGEN, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



In a recent issue of the Canadian Entomologist, No. viii. Vol. vi, 

 there appears from the pen of Mr. Scudder a paper on '* The Linnean 

 Signification of the Generic Term Papilio," containing some statements 

 on which I propose to offer a few remarks. 



The data given b}^ Scudder from Linnd's works are — save some minor 

 typographical errors — correct, excepting in two important points. On ]). 

 144 he says " in the year 1846 the first edition of the Fauna Suecica was 

 published, /;/ 7i'Jnch Linnc for the first tune treats of species, giving to them 

 names in the language of the country.'' (The italics are mine.) 



In the first place, Linnd did never give either to animals or insects names 

 in the language of his country. This is important in view of Mr. Scudders 

 proposition in ^'Psyche'"' to give such names for the convenience of non- 

 entomologists. The names (juoted by Scudder, viz., morio, polychloros,&c., 

 are never given by Linn^as names of the species, hvX just at the eiui of the 

 synonyms, quoted as synonyms, always in this form, I'ulgo morio. These 

 names were never invented by Linn^, but were used by former naturalists ; 

 some are to be found in Petiver's Museum, viz., Oculus pavonis (not 

 Oculis), Bella Donna, Ammiralis (the Admiral) Argus, in Raj us Hist. 

 Ins. and in Albin, Engl. Insects, Brassicaria. Urticaria, etc. — the others in 

 different other authors. Even Linn^ used some of them before, in his 

 Elenchus, viz., Bella Donna, Oculus pavonis, and always in this manner: 



