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Pacific Railroad west of Bismarck. This material enables me to judge 

 with confidence of the distinctness of this species. It is not, in my 

 opinion, a variety of Philodice, nor is it Occidentalis, Scudder, to wliich 

 it bears some resemblance." 



This paper is not referred to in my Catalogue of 1874. 



NOTE ON SOUTHERN MOTHS FOUND IN THE NORTH. 



BY A. R. GROTE, A. M. 



Not unfrequently do I read of the capture of Southern Noctuidce found 

 in Canada and the Northern United States, with the added remark that 

 the specimen was so fresh that it must have just escaped from chrysalis. 

 These remarks are made while I am always (for ten or fifteen years past) 

 saying that these are wind visitors, immigrants. So lately of Erebus 

 odora. Now were this moth really found here as a larva, its large Cato- 

 caline caterpillar must have been found. It is improbable that the food 

 plant of odora grows in the North. The scales are strongly adherent in 

 all these Noctuidce fasciatcc ; the "fresh" moth has flown a thousand 

 miles, more or less, according to my theory, which I seem to support 

 alone, and of which then nobody can rob me. In fact I would rather be 

 wrong, because then my ideas are not appropriated. Hiibner has a weak- 

 ness for considering the Noctuidce fasciatce, Geometers ; so Ptichodis 

 bistrigata (Can. Ent., 12, 87), Eulepidotis alabastriaria (not known to 

 me), Crochiphora flavistriaria (Can. Ent., 12, 118) and others. Know- 

 ing Brotis vulneraria only from figures, I think it is a Noctuid and a 

 wanderer from the South. Erebus odora may breed in Florida, in Texas, 

 New Mexico, So. Colorado, but not with us. This is my theory of immi- 

 gration from the South ; no other writer agrees to it or advocates it. 

 Right or wrong, it is my own. The great question with these species is 

 the limit of successful hibernation, continuous residence, breeding. The 

 Northern food plant must be produced by my opponents. 



Change of Address. — Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, from Dunster 

 Lodge, Spring Grove, Isleworth, to Torrington House, Holywell Hill, St. 

 x\lbans, England. 



Mailed JSTovember 1st, 



