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or cupida, which have it flattened, while CUpida varies in California in si 

 character (the open orbicular) which Mr. Morrison uses to separate 

 xseriistigma. 



To the list of synonyms I have given as recently made by Mr- 

 Morrison, Mr. Morrison adds that of Orthosia baliola. They would there. 

 fore stand as follows : 



/. Copipaiiolis vernalis Morr. = Eutolype Roland i 

 2. Mantestra illabefada Morr. = Mamestra lilaci/ia. 

 j. Anthoptcra nigrocaput Morr. = X. Ridingsii. 



4. Orthosia b alio la Morr. = Apamea putpuripennii. 



5. Hadena rasi/is Morr. =* £ lap Aria grata. 



Of these five synonyms, one (No. 4) I had not detected, one (No. 5) 



s not conceded by Mr. Morrison and three (Nos. 1-3) are now admitted 

 by him. 



Mr. Morrison is in error in stating that I remark that his vnlgivaga is 

 " probably a re-description of H. apatttiformis." I quote the species on 

 page 215 as a distinct species unknown to me, and merely say " from the 

 description I think it not improbable," etc., which is a very different 

 thing. I make no positive statement with regard to either sericea or 

 vulgivaga. I am glad that sericea is not founded on the specimen sent 

 me as a " n. s. " allied to apiata, because that was apiata. I thought 

 sericea might be the insect, because Mr. Morrison disputed my deter- 

 mination and thought it distinct, and because he speaks comparatively ol 

 apiata in his description of sericea. 



In Can. Ent., 6, 250, Mr. Morrison states that "Mr. Grote refers 

 Ceramica to Taeniocampa." In my paper (Bui. Buff. S. N. S., 2, 122) 1 

 give the genera (as elsewhere) separately and distinctly, but cite their names 

 under the same heading in a short synoptical table, with the remark, "I 

 lave no perfectly preserved specimens of Ceramica exi/sta, and the 

 structural difference from Taeniocampa is not apparent to me," as an 

 excuse for so doing. 



Mr. Morrison's remark as to my identification of Agrotis lyCarum 1 

 think is unfairly put. This identification was always made hesitatingh 

 from a figure, and had been finally abandoned before Mr. Morrison had 

 written on the subject. Again, repentis G. & R. was described in Europe 

 and the name a ms. one of Guenee's. That we had not then identified 

 viessoria was, perhaps, pardonable, Mr. Riley also having redescribed 

 Harris' species as Cochrani. 



