Scudder.] 276 [April 6, 



Thecla inorata Grote and Rob., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, i, 323-4; 

 lb., Descr. Amer. Lep., in, 1-2. Saund., Can. Entom., n, 61-64. 

 Thecla Edwardsii Saund., ms. 1 



Thecla Falacer Harr., Treat. Ins. inj. Veg., Ed. 1862, 276. 

 Scudd., pars, Proc. Ess. Inst., in, 164; lb., Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 Hist, xi, 378; lb., Trans. Chic. Acad. Science, i, 331. 



Thecla calanus Grote and Rob., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, I, 172-3, 

 324; lb., Descr. Amer. Lep., n, 2-3; in, 2. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder also called the attention of the members 

 to the recent recognition of two distinct forms of Grapta 

 among the northern specimens in our cabinets, which had for- 

 merly been labelled G. interrogationis Fabr. 



Mr. J. A. Lintner, in a recent paper in the Transactions of the 

 American Entomological Society, has separated the species having the 

 upper surface of the secondaries obscured with blackish, under the 

 name of G. umbrosa', but Mr. W. H. Edwards informs me that, in a 

 paper recently presented to the same Society, he has shown — and I 

 think rightly — that the name of interrogationis should be retained 

 for the darker form, and has proposed that of G. Fabricii for the spe- 

 cies which Mr. Lintner considers interrogationis. Neither of these 

 writers, however, seems to have examined specimens of the southern 

 species with dusky secondaries, figured by Cramer and by Abbot and 

 Smith under the name of C aureum, and by later writers included as 

 a synonym of interrogationis. As Linne's original description of C 

 aureum referred to a Chinese species, the name of G. Crameri is pro- 

 posed for this southern form. 



April 6, 1870. 



Vice President, Dr. C. T. Jackson, in the chair. Forty five 

 persons present. 



Mr. L. S. Richards of Quincy, Mr. Otis Pettee of Newton, 

 Mr. Charles Barnard of West Newton, Drs. Clarence J. Blake 

 and E. A. Perkins and Messrs. Charles E. Avery, Francis E. 



1 See TransL Am. Ent. Soc, i, 172. Can. Entom., i, 98, 99. 



