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to Prof. Packard for publication in his expected Monograph of the 

 GeometrfB. It is named for Mr. Kuetzing, of Montreal, who found the 

 species." 



In the August number of the Canadian Entomologist (VIII, p. 154), 

 Mr. Giote protests agamst Packard having aUered his manuscript specific 

 name, but he himself in this place, perhaps by a printer's error, spells the 

 name Kentzingi instead oi Kiieizingi. 



In 1 88 2 Grote published his check list, and here we find he has 

 fallen in with Packard's spelling, and the insect stands as Plagodis 

 Kenizitigaria. 



In 1S87 Hulst (Ent. xA-mer., II, 212) called attention to the fact that 

 the two figures of Packard represent very different forms, and he proposed 

 the varietal name nigrescaria for the dark form figured on plate xiii, fig. 51. 



Ill 1S96 Hulst published his "Classification," and therein lists Plagodis 

 Keuizingaria, Packard, but in Dyar's list (1902) he writes Plagodis Kent- 

 zingi, Grote, having evidently come to the opinion that Grote's brief 

 mention in Can. Ent., VIII, 1 1 2, amounted io a. publication of the species, 

 and that it antedated the publication by Packard in his Monograph. 



It should be noted thai the Montreal collector whom Grote wished to 

 honour was Mr. P. Kuetzing, but the specific names of the moth, except 

 in Grote's first note, have always been written as though the gentleman's 

 name was Keutzing. 



In a paper published in May, 1907 (Ent. News, XVIII, 206), Mr. 

 Pearsall discusses these species, and apparently assumes : ist, that the 

 note in Can. Ent., VIII, 112, must be considered as a valid publication 

 of a species Eurymene Kuetzingi, Grote. (Pearsall, by the way, misspells 

 this name, as all the list-makers, including Grote himself, have done.) 



2nd. That this publication antedated the publication in the Mono- 

 graph of Plagodis Keiitzingaria, Packard. On these two points no doubt 

 Mr. Pearsall was misled by Hulst's nomenclature in Dyar's list. 



3rd. That the particular specimen which Packard received from Grote 

 (one out of seven) was the " variety " figured on plate xiii. He even goes 

 so far as to suggest that Grote's protest (published in August, 1876) may 

 have been the reason for the publication of this figure, thus showing that 

 he has overlooked the fact that the Monograph was published before the 

 protest was made. 



Acting apparently on these assumptions, Mr. Pearsall adopts the 

 name Keutzingi, Grote, for nigrescaria, Hulst, and claiming that 



