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can be made of the flowers in defining varieties of apples. This 
may seem a simple matter to botanists, but it must.be new to 
most pomologists, for some of the best of them say there is little 
difference in the flowers of apples. 
ZOOLOGY. 
. Nore on tae Synonymy or Terea Porypnemus.* —In a paper 
read before the Royal Dublin Society, March 18, 1872, Mr. W. 
_ F. Kirby prefers the name paphia L., for our common species of 
Telea, and says: “It has, I think, been questioned whether Cra- 
mer’s Attacus polyphemus, from Jamaica, is identical with this 
common species.” It is Dr. Packard who writes of Cramer’s fig- 
ures under the names ‘“Cecropia,” “ Polyphemus” and “ Prome- 
thea,” as received from the West Indies, that they “would lead 
one to suppose that they represented distinct species,” from those 
we know from the United States under these names (Proc. Ent. 
Soc. Phil., 1864, p. 381). 
Having received Telea Polyphemus from Matamoras, collected 
by my brother, Capt. F. Harris Grote, and it having been recorded 
from California by Mr. H. Edwards, we can assign a wide range 
_ to this species. Farther to the southward it may be replaced by 
the Mexican Telea Montezuma Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., 2, p. 
-~ 118. My studies of this Bombycid lead me to believe that the 
-~ typical Attaci are entirely unrepresented in the West India Islands. 
The positive demonstration of this as a fact would be highly inter- 
esting as throwing some light on the geological history of the 
Islands. I am, then, inclined to regard Cramer’s habitat for our 
Attaci as erroneous, and to account for the discrepancies of his 
figures, by an infidelity of execution. 
I do not find any description of a species of Attacus under the 
name Polyphemus by Linné. The first description seems to be. 
that of Cramer, and the species is afterwards described under the 
same name by Fabricius — Insectorum). This corrects the 
Sheageay proposed by Dr. Packard, who cites Linné as authority 
species, referring ne the “Syst. Nat. (1767).” 
-= Linné describes his B. paphia first in “Syst. N. X.” 1758, as 
from “Guinea,” p. 496, No. 4, and cites ‘ Petiv. Gazoph.” tab. 
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*I am indebted to Dr. Hermann A. Hagen of Cambridge, Mass., for bibliognostic 
information used in the present article. 
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