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of black. Incisalia iroides—Slides showing mating behavior—J. A. Powell,
University of California, Berkeley. Papilio zelicaon: Pictures of mostly black mature larva among many normal
larvae in Sacramento—N. L. La Due, Sacramento, Calif. On display, were various contributors' boxes of Lepidoptera and color-plate
paintings of butterflies by W. H. Howe, Kansas City, Missouri.
The Sunday afternoon session concluded with the following two papers:
Some classical collecting localities in the southwestern United States—J. W. Tilden,
San Jose State College, San Jose, Calif. Biosystematics of Callophrys dumetorum and C. viridis in California—Glenn A.
Gorelick, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.
At 4:10 p.m. the meeting was adjourned.
A total of 60 members and guests attended one or more sessions, including members from nine states outside of California. Registered members included: P. H. Arnaud, Jr., George Connor, C. V. Covell, T. W. Davies, Rod Davis, B. A. Drummond, T. C. Emmel, Ken Goeden, G. A. Gorelick, Bill Hammer, C. F. Harbison, Chris Henne, Pete Herlan, J. H. Hessel, Richard Holland, William Hovanitz, W. H. Howe, Bob Koyama, Noel LaDue, John Lane, R. L. Langston, Alvin Ludtke, David McCorkle, C. D. MacNeill, L. M. Martin, S. O. Mattoon, Dennis Murphy, E. J. Newcomer, P. A. Opler, J. A. Powell, Joe Roberds, Jim Scott, E. O. Sette, J. H. Shepard, W. L. Swisher, F. T. Thorne, J. W. Tilden, Richard Williams.
Respectively submitted, Robert L. Langston, Secretary, pro tern.
CORRECTION
The article, "A collecting trip to northern Queensland," by Douglas Marsden (J. Lepid. Soc, 22:121-2, 1968) contains errors to which I draw attention for the sake of accuracy of future records. Eurema hacabe phoebus should be E. hecabe phoebus, the widely distributed eastern species. Delias mysis aestiva is the name of the subspecies from the Port Darwin area, a thousand miles to the west. I think Marsden has mistaken the normal male of mysis mysis for the northwestern Australian race. The Fabrician type of m. mysis came from the Endeavour River, less than 100 miles north of Cairns and the areas in which Marsden collected. Eurema Candida virgo needs very careful checking. No writer has recorded this species south of the Claudie River district, and I have checked with several of my Queensland colleagues, who, like myself, have never taken it even as far south as Cooktown. True virgo is distinctive among all Australian Eurema in that the male is the normal yellow with a wide, deep black border, but the female is white. I think it probable that a dark specimen of E. brigitta australis has been mistaken for the rare virgo, which is known only from die extreme northern part of Cape York Peninsula.—L. E. Couchman, West Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
BOOK NOTICE
A Revision of the Peoriinae and Anerasthnae ( Auctorum ) of America North of Mexico (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), by Jay C. Shaffer. U. S. National Museum, Bulletin 280; vi + 124 pp. incl. 26 halftone plates. Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D. C, 1968; 20 cents, paper cover.
A thorough revision of adults of the species formerly assigned to the Anerastiinae. Shaffer transfers Anerastia and seven related genera to the Phycitinae, necessitating proposal of Peoriinae to accomodate Peoria and the remaining genera in the separate subfamily. In all, some 15 genera and 39 species are treated, of which four genera and seven species are described as new.—ed.