1899.] GROTE — SPECIALIZATIONS OF LEPIDOPTEROUS WING. 7 



Stated Meeting, January 20, 1890. 



Vice-President Sellers in the Chair. 



Present, 12 members. 



The death of Major Jeclediah Hotchkiss, of Staunton, Ya., 

 a member of the Society, Avas announced. 



A verbal communication was made by Mr. Wadamori, of 

 Japan, upon " A New System of Mnemonics." 



A paper entitled " Photometric Researches," by Prof. 

 Hugo Seeliger, of Munich, Bavaria, translated and edited by 

 Prof. A. W. Myers, of the University of Illinois, was offered 

 for the Transactions, and on motion was referred to a Com- 

 mittee consisting of Profs. E. C. Pickering, C. L. Doolittle 

 :and M. B. Snyder. 



A communication for the Proceedings from Mr. A. Radcliffe 

 Orote, on ' ' Specializations of the Lepidopterous Wing ; the 

 Parnassi-Papilionidie. I, ' ' was read. 



Dr. I. Minis Hays was elected Librarian for the current 

 year. 



Pending nominations Nos. 1477, 1478, 1480, and new 

 nominations Nos. 1481, 1482, 1483, 1484, 1485, 1486, 1487, 

 1488 and 1489, having been read, the meeting was declared 

 adjourned. 



SPECL\LIZATIONS OF THE LEPIDOPTEROUS WING j 

 PARNASSI-PAPILIONID^ . 



I. 



BY A. RADCLIFFE GROTE, A.M. 



{Read January 20, 1S99.) 



This communication embodies results obtained from a study of 

 the neuration of the types of genera proposed in literature in the 

 Papilionides. It may be considered as a contribution to phylogeny 

 in the group, from the fact that it exhibits the characters of special- 

 ization recognized by me in the structure of the wings, while the 

 inference is accepted that the more specialized are also the younger 



