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its hybrid character. It seems to me safer to keep the original 

 term proposed by Hope, the discoverer of the insect, since tliis 

 course avoids all philological discussion, with which zoologists are 

 not primarily concerned and perhaps not always competent to enter 

 upon. It seems likely also that in the future ^z// rules limiting the 

 action of the law of priority upon the published name will of them- 

 selves fall from lack of authority, and that preoccupation will 

 remain the only bar to the use of the original title. 



Tdinopalpus imperialis. 



Radius five-branched, generalized ; \\\^ at or just beyond the 

 point of juncture of cross-vein; iii4 and iiig a long furcation. 

 Vein \\\ radial, nearing radius ; cross-vein between iv^ and ivj 

 inwardly curved, degenerate. Vein ivj distinctly cubital, con- 

 tinuous. Submedian fold (vein vi) indicated, strongly so at base ; 

 between the fold and cubitus obliquely placed and faint traces of 

 the vanished cubital cross-vein. On secondaries humeral cell 

 narrow, elongate ; the marginal veins subequally strong, the upper 

 slightly thicker, a Parnassian character. Cell entire on secon- 

 daries, vein iva cubital. Internal vein straight, continued to anal 

 angle. 



Contrary to what has seemed to me elsewhere the almost gen- 

 eral rule, the primaries appear here, as also in the Parnassiidae, 

 more specialized than the secondaries. The falcate fore wings, the 

 sharp. outlines, while imparting to this butterfly an artificial look, 

 remind one of the Charaxinae. The movement of the media in 

 disintegration is Parnassian, while the presence of vein ix on pri^- 

 maries decides at once its position as a member of the Papilionides. 



Stated Meeting, February 3, 1899. 

 Vice-President Sellers iu the Chair. 

 Present, 19 members. 

 A letter was read from the President announcing the ap- 

 pointment of the Standing Committees for 1899, as follows : 

 Finance.— Mq^si^. Philip C. Garrett, William V. .McKean 

 and Joel Cook. 



Publication.— MQ?>^r^. Daniel G. Brinton, Henry C. Baird, 

 Patterson DuBois, I. Minis Hays and Joseph Willcox. 



