Hagen.] 134 [November 22, 



General Meeting, November 15, 1882. 



Vice-President, Mr. F. W. Putnam in the chair. Fifty-seven 

 persons present. 



The following candidates for associate membership were 

 elected : , Messrs. Charles R. Hooper, John F. Hooper, George H. 

 Thatcher, and Mrs. Marie A. Hooper. 



The President then introduced Dr. William B. Carpenter, of 

 London, who gave an account of the history and present status 

 of the controversy on JEozoon Canadense, and stated the arguments 

 for its organic character. 



Section of Entomology, November 22, 1882. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder in the chair. Ten members present. 

 The following paper was read : 



CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NORTHERN TRANSCONTINEN- 

 TAL SURVEY. NOTES ON THE GENUS PIERIS. 



BY DR. H. A. HAGEN. 



Pieris (Neophasia) menapia. 



P. menapia £, $ Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatsschr., in, p. 271. 



transl. Morris Lepid., p. 19 ; Catal. p. 4. Weydem., Catal. p. 8. 

 P. tau $ Scudd. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, viii, p. 183, (separate 



p. 6J. — repr. Morris Lepid. p. 322. Weydem., Catal. p. 9. 

 P. menapia £, $ Felder, NTovara, Lepid. n, p. 181, pi. 25, f . 7 $ . 

 P. ninonia $, $ Boisd. Am. Soc. Ent. Belg., xn, p. 38. 

 N. menapia, Behr, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. n, p. 303. — Stett. Ent. 



Zeit. xxix, p. 300. 

 P. menapia 6 W. H. Edw., N. A. Butt, i, Pieris pi. i, f. 1-3. 



Catal. p. 12, suppl. notices. 

 N. menapia $ W. H. Edw., Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. iv, p. 63 ; 



Mead, Wheeler's Exp. v, p. 743. 



