1873.] 13 [Packard. 



COMMITTEES ON DEPARTMENTS 



Minerals. 



Thomas T. Bouve, Wm. H. Niles, 



Charles T. Jackson, M.D., John Cummings. 



L. S. Buebank. 



Paleontology. Botany. 



Thos. T. Bouve, Wm. T. Brigham, 



N. S. Shaler, Charles J. Sprague, 



W. H. Niles. J. Amory Lowell. 



Microscopy. Comparative Anatomy. 



Edwin Bicknell, Thomas Dwight, Jr., M.D. 



K. C. Greenleap, Jefpries Wyman, M.D., 



B. Joy Jeppries, M.D. J. C. White, M.D. 4 



Radiates, Crustaceans and Worms. Mollusks. 



A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D., Edward S. Morse, 



A. E. Verrill, J. Henry Blake, 



Alex. E. Agassiz. Levi L. Thaxter. 



Insects. Fishes and Reptiles. 



S. H. Scudder, F. W. Putnam, 



Edward Burgess, S. Kneelaud, M.D., 



A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D. Richard Bliss, Jr. 



Birds. Mammals. 



Thomas M. Brewer, M.D., J. A. Allen, 



Samuel Cabot, M.D., J. H. Emerton, 



J. A. Allen. J. B. S. Jackson, M.D. 



The following paper was presented : 



Catalogue of the Phal^enid^e of California. No. 2. 

 By A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D. 



The receipt of a valuable collection from Mr. Henry Edwards of 

 San Francisco leads me to publish a number of new species con- 

 tained in the collection, in addition to those described in these Pro- 

 ceedings, Vol. xni, p. 381. A large proportion of the species 

 received from Mr. Edwards are unique specimens from his collection, 

 and I am much indebted to the liberal spirit he has shown in entrust- 

 ing them to me for study. 



Thanks to his exertions, and the labors of Mr. J. Behrens of the 

 same city, and Mr. Junius Holleman of Goose Lake, Siskiyou Co., 

 Cal., and a collection made by Mr. A. Agassiz for the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, as well as the account of Californian species 

 given by M. Guenee, in his work on the " Phalenites," we are able to 

 enumerate about 90 species from California, Nevada and Oregon. 

 Though this is probably less than one-third of the number that will 

 be found to inhabit California and the States adjacent, yet I think 

 we have sufficient data to enable us to make a preliminary compari- 

 son, our conclusions being strengthened by what we know of other 



