THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. li> 



appears in the latter part of July. This moth, which is represented in 

 fio-. 3, measures, when its wings are expanded, about one and three quarter 



Fi"\ 3. 



inches ; the fore wings are dark brown, shaded with paler brown, and 

 with dots and wavy lines of dull white. The hind wings are reddish with 

 almost a coppery lustre, becoming brown on the outer angle of the front 

 edge of the wing, and paler towards the hinder and inner angle. The 

 under surface of the wings is much lighter in color than the upper : the 

 body is dark brown, with the hinder portion banded with lines of a paler- 

 hue. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Dear Sir,- 



Mr. A. R. Grote has published a paper in the " Bulletin of the Buffalo- 

 Society of Natural Sciences," in which some statements are made which 

 call for correction on my part. I shall not allude to his personal remarks, 

 similar in character to those which he has made concerning others who 

 have ventured to criticize his scientific work or to correct his mistakes • 

 but to the palpable blunders into which he has fallen with respect to some 

 species recently described by me in the Proceedings of the Boston Society 

 of Natural History. The following is a list of those of my species which 

 were corrected (sic) by Mr. Grote : Hadeiia rasi/is, H. vulgivaga, Glaea 

 sericea, Agrotis cxertistigma, Xanthoptera nigrocaput, Copipanolis vernalis 

 and Mamestra illabefacta. 



Mr. Grote states that my H. rasilis is a re-description of Elaphtia 



grata Hiibn., referred by him in the List to Caradrina ! If Mr. Grote 



will examine Hiibners figure, he will see that it represents a much larger, 



stouter, and entirely different insect. Mr. Grote has apparently overlooked 



