•i GROTE—SEARCPI FOR THE TYPE OF NOCTUA LINN". [Jan. 3, 



President. 



Isaac J. Wistar. 



Vice-Presidents. 

 Coleman Sellers, Isaac J. Wistar, George F, Barker. 



Secretaries. 



I. Minis Hays, EdwinJ^G. Conldin, Arthur W, Goodspeed, 



Morris Jastrow, Jr 



Treasurer. 



Horace Jayne. 



Curators. 



Charles L. Doolittle, William P. Wilson, William B. Scott. 



Councillors to serve for three years. 



George F. Edmunds, James T. Mitchell, Albert H. Smyth, 

 Jcseph Wharton. 



RESULTS OBTAINED FROM A SEARCH FOR THE TYPE 

 OF NOCTUA LINN., AND CONCLUSIONS AS TO TYPES 

 OF HUEBNERIAN NOCTUID GENERA REPRESENTED 

 IN THE NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



BY A. RADCLIFFE GROTE, A.M. 



{Read January 3, 1902.) 



In view of the preparation of a general Catalogue of North 

 American Lepidoptera, I have been asked to give the types of 

 Hiibnerian Noctuid genera. It is essential that systematists state 

 the type of the generic title they use, and their work will be lasting 

 in proportion as its literary basis has been proved. The scientific 

 edifice will stand when the bricks are sound. A catalogue which 

 employs the true, historically ascertained generic types has the 

 advantage of possessing a permanent framework, even if later on 

 the position of the objects designated be altered. And by using 

 correct names a great advantage is secured to collectors and to lit- 

 erature. In my studies of the North American Noctuids for the 



