202 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



AGROTIS SUBGOTHICA. 



Sir, — In reply to Mr. Tiitt's note in the July number of the Can. 

 Ent., p. 159, I would state that I have no knowledge of Haworth's work 

 in which stibgothica is described. I have everywhere taken Stephens's 

 identifications of Haworth's species. Now Stephens figures jaculifera 

 of Guenee, as figured in the Species Ge'neral, typical jaculifera, as sub- 

 gothica, of Ha worth {?). If, then, Stephens is wrong, and Haworth's 

 stibgothica is a variety of tritici and not our American species, this latter 

 must be known as jaculifera, and Prof. Lintner's name of tricosa must 

 then clearly be retained for that species, as insisted upon by myself. 

 Stephens's figure is unmistakably based on our American species ; how 

 nearly the European tritici resembks this I cannot, at the moment, say. 

 The following will be the synonymy oi A^^rotis jaculifera. .According to 

 Mr. Tutt's statement that subgothica of Haworth is a variety of tritici of 

 Linne, our American species must bs listed as follows : — 

 jaculifera, Guen., fig. 



subgothica, Steph , fig. in err. 

 tricosa, Lintner. 



jaculifera, Guen. var. A. 

 jaculifera. Smith, in err. 

 herilis, Grote. 



jaculifera, Gwtn. var. B. 



herelis. Smith. x\. R Grote 



SOME CORRECTIONS. 



Sir, — In rav. paper, Can. Ent., page 152, I say I have placed 

 Agrotis costata and its near ally A. idahoensis " together wrongly," line 

 10. It is clear from the context that I meant in a wrong position in my 

 lists. The two species are closely allied, differing in colour, costata 

 being reddish, idahoensis purplish, and. in costata, the pallid costal region 

 is whiter and broader. The two belong together. I have always asso- 

 ciated them, and, indeed, described the one comparatively with the 

 other. The types are in British Museum On page 148, line 6 from 

 bottom, for grouping, read association. On page 151, for "-The Practical 

 Entomologist," read the practical entomologists. I was writing, not of a 

 publication, but of a class of working entomologists, whose figures 

 (mostly duplications of the same cut) confounded the three forms : 

 subgothica, Stephens {= jaculifera, Guen.), tricosa, Lintner {= jaculifera, 

 Smith), and herilis, Grote { = herelis, Smith). A. R. Grote. 



Mailed September 2[st, 1S91. 



