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Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society
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THE DATES OF PUBLICATION OF LEP1DOPTERA, RHOPALOCERES-HETEROCERES BY HERMAN STRECKER1
by F. Martin Brown
Fountain Valley School, Colorado Springs, Colo., U. S. A.
Ever since the controversy (Aaron, 1884), in 1878 over the publication data for Number 14 of Strecker's Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres — Hetero-ceres, there has been considerable question about the exact dates of issue of the various parts of that work. Since both Strecker and Edwards described as novelties butterflies from the same field-lots and in the same year it is important to establish the precise dates upon which these names became valid. Manuscripts treating the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia and the first ten volumes of the Transactions of the American Entomological Society in which Edwards published new names have been completed and are being published in the Transactions of the American Entomological Society. These will fix the dates for the names published by Edwards. The dates for the names published by Strecker are fixed in this paper.
Through the courtesy of Dr. Rupert Wenzel and the administration of the Chicago Museum of Natural History, I have had permission to study a mass of letters written to Strecker. Among these I have found letters from Herman H. Behr, William H. Edwards, Samuel H. Scudder and Richard H. Stretch containing acknowledgements of receipt of various parts of Strecker's Lepidoptera. Edwards and Scudder were regular pre-publication subscribers to the volume. In addition I have found one of Strecker's ledgers that records dates upon which he mailed copies of numbers 14 and 15.
In the following table I have stated Strecker's printed date for each number of his Lepidoptera, the earliest date I have found acknowledging receipt of it or the earliest date in the ledger for mailing, and a fair estimate of the date of issue for each number. The latter assumes a generous time in transit from Reading, Pennsylvania to the recipient, based upon the date of cancellation of letters and backstamps with the date the letter was received at Reading. The transit time to Stretch in California is estimated as ten days, to both Edwards and Scudder in Coalburgh, West Virginia and Boston, Massachusetts, respectively, is estimated as four days.
1This is a by-product of work being done on the types of William H. Edwards's names for butterflies under National Science Foundation grant GB-194.
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2On page 32 there is printed the date 10 June 1873. This probably is the date when the manuscript for number 4 was completed and sent to the printer.
3Strecker's ledger shows that he sent a copy of number 14 to Neumoegen on this date. All other mailings that are noted in the ledger, to Moeschler, Druce and Henley Smith, are dated 23 March 1878 or 26 March 1878 (to Ribbe). Scudder acknowledged receipt of the number on 26 March 1878 and his bill bears a printed date 19 March 1878. This is the earliest receipt I have found for a copy sent to a subscriber. On July 16, Strecker sent a copy of number 15 to Moeschler. This is the earliest date I have found associated with that number. Scudder acknowledged his copy on 10 August, 1878. Apparently Strecker did not distribute all copies at one time. Possibly he sent them off as he finished coloring the plates for a single copy of a number.
On the basis of the above data, the dates to be ascribed to the twelve butterflies named by Strecker in the fifteen numbers are these:
alma, Melitaea 16 July 1878
anticostiensis, Papilio 14 May 1873
astaroth, Satyrus 18 March 1878
guadeloupe, Charis 18 March 1878
fotis, Thecla 18 March 1878
hoffmani, Satyrus 18 July 1873
imitata, Melitaea 18 March 1878
kali, Thecla 18 March 1878
larunda, Melitaea 18 March 1878
larvata, Lihythea 18 March 1878
similis, Pamphila 18 March 1878
References
Aaron, E. Murray, 1884. A question in priority. Papilio 4: 131-134.
Brown, F. Martin, 1964. Dates of publication of the various parts of the proceedings
of The Entomological Society of Philadelphia. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc,
89: 305-308. Edwards, William H. Manuscript letters in the Strecker Collection, Chicago Museum
of Natural History. Scudder, Samuel H. Manuscript letters in the Strecker Collection, Chicago Museum
of Natural History. Strecker, Herman. Manuscript ledgers in the Strecker Collection, Chicago Museum
of Natural History. Stretch, Richard H. Manuscript letters in the Strecker Collection, Chicago Museum
of Natural History.
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