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This side of naming insects has been neglected since its great advocates, Linnaeus, 

 Latreille, Schrank and Westwood. To Latreille we owe the beautiful image of Par- 

 nassius, with Apollo as its type. They are the creatures which fly around the summit 

 of the sacred mountain of poetry, guarded by Apollo himself. 



Schrank furnished Pieris, the flies which cluster around the fountain of inspira- 

 tion. True, the Colzas seek the mud puddle, but it is better far to see in every mud 

 puddle the Pierian Spring than to mistake the spring for some mud puddle. 



Westwood dwelt upon the followers of the great god Pan, contributing to ento- 

 mological nomenclature the satyrs, dryads and other nymphs. The dictionaries are 

 utterly wrong in deriving Pamphila from pan -f- phila, i. <?., beloved by all. Fabri- 

 cius adapted the name to mean " the especial favorite and messenger of Pan, the god 

 of Nature students." Eudamus Swainson is Pan's well-beloved. Hesperidae generally 

 are devoted to the God of the Setting Sun, i. e., the west. This fact, their color and 

 all render the Indian names given to them peculiarly appropriate. 



Linnaeus gave us Sphinx but did not carry out the imagery to the species. Like 

 Phanix, they represent a re-incarnation of the Egyptian gods, demi-gods and heroes. 

 Linnaeus began and Schrank continued the Saturnians, a race of peaceful giants, 

 archaic in form, and preceding the whole cosmogony of Zeus. Linnseus gave us 

 Heliconins, the attendants flitting around the fountain of the Muses. Its type is 

 charitonia, the clown, but an airy fairy clown at that. 



Linnaeus gave us the whole army before Troy for ten wasted years. The type of 

 all butterflies represents the Psyche of his first ambition. It is Papilio Machaon, the 

 physician, son of ./Esculapius, and with his brother Podalirins, surgeon-in-chief to 

 the Greek forces. Cuvier and Westwood were right in this assumption. Scudder, 

 in his guess at Antiopa, as the type, was incorrect. 



Linnaeus, followed by Fabricius, named Lepidoptera after living men, but never 

 except the minor ones, the plebeians as opposed to the patricians. The only excep- 

 tion is the Huntera of Fabricius. 



Each named some Tortricids after discoverers. Hochenwarth (1789) is the 

 only man who named a species after himself. 



Mr. Dickerson exhibited a number of cases of the bagworm and the parasites 

 which infest them. He spoke concerning the life history and habits of the bagworm, 

 of the results of the work of various parasites and of disease in checking the spread of 

 this economically important insect in various parts of the State of New Jersey. Mr. 

 Dickerson expects soon to publish the result of his work on the bagworm. 



In connection with the importance of disease in checking the number of insects, 

 Professor Smith spoke of the advantages of giving more attention to this in connection 

 with the gypsy moth and other injurious insects. 



Society adjourned. 



Meeting of April 22, 1908. 

 Held at the American Museum of Natural History, President C. W. Leng in 

 the chair, with eighteen members and three visitors present. 



The reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting was postponed. 

 The Librarian reported the receipt of the following exchanges : 

 Trans. Wisconsin Acad. Sci. , Vol. XV, Pt. II. 

 Berliner Entomol. Zeitschrift, Vol. XLII, No. 2. 



