Dec, '07] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 423 



The plate, No. 29, illustrating Thecla falacer, in Boisduval 

 and Leconte's work, is quite correctly referred to as represent- 

 ing T. calanus. Hiibn., but I do not see that it has been by any 

 moans satisfactorily established by Mr. Grote, as stated by 

 Dr. Saunders * that the description in the text was drawn 

 up from T. edzvardsii. 



In Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XIII, 272-276 (1870), Dr. 

 Scudder published an exhaustive paper on the synonymy of 

 Thecla calanus, correcting the misidentifications of Grote 

 and Robinson, but ignoring the form lorata which has been 

 recognized by other authors as a variety of calanus. This 

 reference of falacer, Godt., as a synonym of calanus, Hiibn., 

 may be, as above shown, open to question, but his statement 

 that all the specimens in the Harris collection are edzvardsii 

 b not quite correct, if that collection is in the same condition 

 now as when he examined it. I recently had an opportunity 

 of examining it, and found that there were three specimens 

 of edzvardsii 9 all bearing a printed number 76, and with 

 manuscript numbers 160, 405, 405, which referred to Harris' 

 list of specimens in which they were entered as falacer. 



There was, however, in addition, one specimen of calanus $ 

 which bore a printed number 75, but no manuscript number, 

 but there was a label put on in error by some one, which bears 

 the words, "Notodonta, July 20 45." It may, however, be 

 safely accepted that edzvardsii was the- species which Harris 

 called falacer, although in his description, t he says that the 

 rows of spots on the under side are bordered on one side only 

 with white. 



In his references, he duplicates those to the papers by G. & 

 R., giving the names of the papers and the page numbers of 

 the author's separates, as well as the pages in the Trans. Amer. 

 Ent. Soc. 



Grote disagreed with Scudder's conclusions, and wrote a 

 paper from Demopolis, Ala., which was published in Can. 

 Ent II, 165-168, in which he claimed that what Scudder called 

 edzvardsii was really falacer, Godt., and that calanus, Iliibn. 



* Can. Ent., i,99. 

 t Insects Mass., 276. 



