Grote.] 262 [December 5, 



Dr. Brewer stated that his observations in Boston were to the 

 same effect. For fifty years he had been a close observer of the 

 birds on the Common, and in no season had he known so large a 

 number, or so large a variety, as during the past summer. He and 

 some of his younger friends were keeping a careful record of the 

 species that summer on the Common, which would be make public. 

 Mr. Peabody, the officer referred to, assured him that he had repeat- 

 edly seen a large number of our native birds bathing with the 

 sparrows, in the fountain near Park Street, and had never seen one 

 of them molested by the latter. 



The following paper was presented by title : — 



On the Pyralid Genus Epipaschia of Clemens, and Allied 



Forms. 

 By A. R. Grote. 



The genus Epipaschia, which I have excluded from the Noctuidae 

 to which it is referred (Herminidae) by Clemens (Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phil., 1860, p. 14), is characterized by a peculiar tegumentary scaled 

 process which arises from the base of the male antennas, and is 

 thrown backward over the thorax, which it nearly equals in length. 

 Dr. Clemens does not give this appendage as a sexual feature, but it 

 is wanting in the females; this author also calls it articulated, but I 

 can detect no suture. 



Lederer, in his monograph of the group, establishes two genera 

 signalized by a corresponding character, Deuterollyta (p. 358) and 

 Homura (p. 339). The last need not detain us for it is founded on 

 a Sicilian species without ocelli, which are present in the species of 

 Epipaschia. Whether Lederer's Deuterollyta conspicualis from Brazil 

 really belongs to this genus of ours I am exceedingly doubtful. A 

 specimen of Epipaschia superatalis has been determined by Prof. 

 Zeller as Lederer's species, but it cannot be the same, judging from 

 Lederer's figures. Lederer says of the antennal appendage: "die 

 mannlichen Fuhler mit langen diinnen biischelweise gestellten Wim- 

 pern; hinten ihnen ein grosser uber den Riicken zuriick gebogener, 

 Palpen nicht unahnlicher zweitheiliger Haarkamm " (p. 359). But 

 in Epipaschia it is a scaled tegumentary process, cylindrical in shape. 

 The Brazilian species differs also in color and markings from 

 superatalis. 



A careful examination satisfies me that this process moves with the 

 basal articulation of the antenna. In a second North American 



