178 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Dear Sir, — September 18th, 1873. 



It is my duty to say a word to your readers in reference to my 

 accusations against Mr. Grote, and which appeared in your last issue. 



Those accusations have occasioned a good deal of feeling betwixt 

 Messrs. Grote and Strecker, if one may judge from the correspondence 

 which has since passed between them, and which, by the courtesy of the 

 respective gentlemen, I have been permitted to see. 



Without betraying any confidence, I may say that the whole thing is 

 resolved into a question of veracity as betwixt those two gentlemen, and 

 I must say that while I feel confident that neither party would state a 

 falsehood, there certainly is a great imperfection of memory somewhere — 

 where, I, of course, cannot decide. 



The statements made in my note, already referred to, were almost 

 literally as told me by Mr. Strecker. Mr. Grote denies that he received 

 any limiting instructions from Strecker. So the matter stands. 



Let the thing drop altogether. It is not of sufficient importance to 



waste another sheet of paper about it. My object was not, Sir, as. you 



imagined, to enlist a childish sympathy in my favor, it was meant to check 



a practice of which I had heard a good deal, and which, if continued, 



could not fail to exert an injurious influence on Entomological Science in 



America. 



W. V. Andrews. 



mr. strecker's corrections. 



Dear Sir, — 



Mr. Strecker, of Reading, Penn., has been in correspondence with 

 Mr. H. B. Moschler, who has written some very valuable articles on the 

 Lepidopterous Fauna of Labrador, in the Wiener E?itomcldgische 

 Monatsckrift. and whose description of Gclecliia labradorensis I have 

 translated in these pages. Mr. Strecker corrects the name spcciosissima 

 Mosch. to speciosa Mosch., in the citation of a species of Arctia in Mr. 

 Robinson's and my List (1868). 



This is right, and I committed an error in transcribing the name, and 

 one that escaped me on the proofs, but was detected about fifteen 

 minutes after the printed copies were in my hands. Mr. Strecker next, on 



