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tion of the European Dahlii, I may say that Mr. Morrison himself sent 

 rat p/iyilophora determined as Dahlii var. of Guenee, and that I corrected 

 this determination. I may say, to conclude with Mr. Morrison, that some- 

 time after the circumstances which led to our difference transpired, Mr. 

 Morrison wrote me a letter in which he acknowledged that he had misled me 

 on several occasions, for the reason that he imagined I had acted in bad faith 

 to him in sending him (at his request) species to describe, which he 

 thought I knew not to be new. These species were, however, really 

 new, and I described them, upon Mr. Morrison's refusal, myself, where- 

 upon Mr. Morrison candidly acknowledged his suspicions, of which he 

 relieved me, and this matter brought our correspondence to a close. With 

 reference to the remarks on page 38, with regard to Mr. Henry Edwards's 

 types of Agrotis, I would say that I returned the types of A. niveivenosa, 

 A. pallidicollis and A. tnilleri to Mr. Edwards, and that I did so at his 

 special request. No other "types" were "borrowed" by me, and all 

 other specimens of Agrotis received by me from this source were given 

 to me by Mr. Edwards, as a due return for my general determinations of 

 his material in the family. I relinquished to Mr, Edwards really 

 valuable and veritable "types" o^ AegeriadcB in the exercise of a like 

 courtesy, as Mr. Edwards was studying that group. Mr. Edwards's 

 specimens of Californian Agrotis were, however, not " types " until 

 worked over by me, and had little value aside from my work upon them. 

 I gave Prof Smith also several tyj es of Noctuidce and Mr. Neumoegen 

 of Arctia. I may here remark that Prof Smith is fond of citing speci- 

 mens determined by me which are in various collections and do not 

 belong to my species. In some few cases, as in the exsertistigma group, 

 these determinations may well be the result of error on my part. But in 

 by far the greater number of cases I believe that the determinations were 

 not positively made by me, that in all, or nearly all, of them I never 

 compared the specimens with my types or had the opportunity of doing 

 so. Names given by me under a reservation would not unlikely be used 

 by the owner of the specimen without that reservation. I think, when 

 my types come to be examined that A. orbis will be shown to be distinct 

 from cupidissima, and probably the species described by Prof. Smith 

 under the latter title. But on the whole, and granting all that can bs 

 said, and while I am certainly not directly responsible for all the mistakes 

 in the different private collections cited by Prof Smith, which I have 

 never had the opportunity thoroughly to s^e, much less to study, it must 



