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The Nominating Committee presented the names of can- 

 didates foi' the vacant Curatorships. 



An election was then lield, and Mr. J. A. Allen was chosen 

 Curator of Reptiles, and Mr. C. F. Folsom Curator of Mam- 

 mals and Comparative Anatomy. 



The President announced tliat the next course of Lectures 

 would be delivered hy Mr. W. H. Niles, upon the Geological 

 History of North America; they Avould be given on succes- 

 sive Wednesdays, commencing December 2d. 



Section of Entomology. November 25, 1868. 



Mr. P. S. Sprague in the chair. Fourteen members present. 



On behalf of the author, Mr. F. G. Sanborn presented the 

 following paper : — 



Descriptiox of a New Species of Thecla. By Charles 



P. AVlIITXEY OF MiLFORD, N. H. 



Theela Souhagan. S and ? . Upper side brown, tinted with 

 bluish-gray. Secondaries with two tails, between which is a small 

 fulvous spot. Internal tail fringed on the inner side and tipped with 

 white; external tail very short, black. External margin of wings 

 black with white fringe. Basal half of costal edge of primaries 

 fulvous before. Male with glossy oblong spot at exti'cmity of disk. 



Under side of the pearly gray of Lyccenn convjntas. Primaries with 

 a terminal row of seven black daslies, bordered on the outside with 

 orange, and a cm'ved sub-terminal row of seven black spots edged 

 with white, the inner ones elongated, and a black transverse streak 

 on discoidal nervure. Secondaries with a trigonate spot of orange 

 resting on a black spot at anal angle, and partly surrounding a large 

 blue spot, followed by a row of six orange crescents edged with black. 

 Inside a sinuous line of eight black spots. A black dash in centre of 



