THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 139 



In his disquisition on Samia Columbia, Mr. Strecker thinks Dr. Hagen's 

 suggestion might be true as to its being a hybrid between promethea and 

 .cecropia, were it not that promet/iea does not occur at Montreal. He has 

 been already corrected on this point in the Canadian Entomologist ; 

 there is also the fact that Columbia is described originally from Maine. 

 The fact that Gloveri is suggested by Dr. Hagen to be = Columbia, is also 

 sagaciously left out of sight by Mr. Strecker. 



With reference to Californica, Mr. Strecker does not know my paper 

 published in the Trans, of the American Philosophical Society, Nov.. 

 1874, or chooses to ignore it. His ignorance as to where Calif ornica is 

 described shows an unacquaintance even with the publications of the 

 Entomological Society of Philadelphia, and I have shown that the 

 synonymy in his work is copied from catalogues, etc., and is no proof of 

 bibliographical knowledge, and therefore quite superfluous. And while 

 Mr. Strecker very properly quotes Mr. Kirby's correction of my generic 

 name, he purposely ignores the fact that Mr. Kirby retains for the species 

 from the West the name Samia California, to which I believe it to be 

 justly entitled, although Mr. Strecker calls it " Euryalus" 



A. R. Grote. 



Dear Sir, — 



In the u Preliminary Lisfof the Noctuidae of California," Can. Ent., 

 7, 68, I have cited a species under the number 107 with the name Agrotis 

 excellens. This name is used by Dr. Staudinger for a different species 

 previously, and may be changed for the Californian species to that of 

 -Agrotis per excellens. A. R. Grote. 



INSECT CAPTURES. 



In our issue for July, 1874, p. 140, we noticed some rare and inter- 

 esting captures made by one of our members, Mr. F. C. Lowe, of 

 Dunnville, Ont., during a tour made by him in the county of Essex. At 

 that time, when near the village of North Ridge, he secured a very 

 handsome and perfect specimen of Papilio marcellus (the second recorded 

 specimen taken in Canada), and saw on the wing two others which he did 

 not succeed in capturing : besides which, he took several specimens of 

 Papilio thoas, a species also extremely rare in Canada. These, with many 

 others, were taken between the 10th and 20th of June. 



