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stigma black, paler at their juncture; marginal cross-nervure strongly 

 bowed, received by the third submarginal cell at its apical two-thirds ; 

 inner spur of the anterior tibiae with an oblique prolongation on the side. 

 Length, 13 mm. 



Habitat. — Franconia, New Hampshire. 



Closely related to barnstonii, Kirby, from which it is separated by 

 having the collar and tegulas yellow. 



IN REPLY TO MR. HULST. 



BY A. R. GROTE, A. M., BREMEN, GERMANY. 



Mr. Hulst has been at the pains of taking a sentence of mine as the 

 text of a discourse as to the value of genitalic characters in classification, 

 in the January number of the Canadian Entomologist. Whether this 

 sentence will really bear the edifice Mr. Hulst has erected upon it, is a 

 matter which hardly concerns me. Before either Mr. Smith or Mr. Hulst 

 wrote, I had pointed out the value of the genitalia in generic groupings, 

 in this following Lederer, as an accessory character. My opinion had 

 been (but this is only an opinion) that morphologically the characters 

 drawn from the male anal appendages were of similar value to those 

 drawn from the antennae. I either did not hear, or had forgotten, Prof. 

 Fernald's unprinted paper on the classification of the Tortricidae. As I 

 took the greatest interest in Prof Fernald's studies, it is more than pro- 

 bable I did not hear it. If the sub-family Phycitiiue can be divided into two 

 groups or tribes from a decided modification of the genitalia, I think there 

 would be no objection to its use, except that the character is difficult of 

 verification. I would ask Mr. Hulst how he comes to classify species, of 

 which he only knows the female, with such certainty in his paper? But 

 this and other questions as to Mr. Hulst's classification are a matter for 

 M. Ragonot to consider, and those who especially interest themselves in 

 the study of the Phycitince. My sentence has another origin and meaning 

 which I will illustrate. During a visit Mr. Smith paid me on Staten 

 Island, he pointed out to me that the legs of our Catocalce were differently 

 spined in the different species. I had not observed this. Shortly after- 

 wards we had a new paper by Mr. Hulst on Catocala, illustrated by Mr. 

 Smith, in which the species were strangely jumbled on the strength of this 

 character. In fact, Mr. Hulst went so far as to count the number of 

 spines on the joints to found his divisions. [Compare Bull. Brook. Ent. 

 3oc., III. and VII., 31.] In the American Naturalist will be found ^ 



