THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 135 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



To the Editor : 



Sir, — Your notice of " The Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural 

 Sciences," edited, I believe, by Mr. Grote, reminds me that I have a duty 

 to perform. 



Mr. Grote has, I am told, named and described a new Sesia in the 

 Bulletin {Sesia marginalis I think is the name.) To this insect Mr. 

 Grote has no sort of right of any kind, nor had he any right to name or 

 describe it. 



It was, as I am informed, simply sent to him by my friend, Mr. 

 Strecker, for the purpose of obtaining his opinion as to whether it was a 

 new species or not, and as it was consigned to Mr. Strecker by me for the 

 express purpose of having it described and figured in his new work now 

 being issued, I must protest against Mr. Grote's action in this matter,, 

 and trust that Entomologists generally will mark their disapprobation of 

 this grab game by ignoring altogether Mr. Grote's very unbecoming action 

 in the premises. 



YV. V. Andrews. 



P. S. — I shall send the insect to Europe for description, &c, with an 

 explanation of the circumstances. 



New York, Aug. i, 1873. 



Note by Ed. — -We really are unable to sympathize with our corres 

 pondent in his grievance. If he has ever done anything in descriptive 

 Entomology he must know what an immense amount of labour is often- 

 times involved in the effort to ascertain whether a particular insect has 

 been described before or not. Unless one is thoroughly conversant, by 

 dint of hard study and research, with the group or family to which an 

 insect belongs, one must spend hours of work in hunting through, not 

 only the descriptions of American Entomologists, but also the French, 

 German and Latin, as well as English descriptions of European authors. 

 After all this has been done and one arrives at the conclusion that the 

 insect in question is new to science, it does seem a little hard that the 

 labourer should be required to hand over the results to some one else who 

 has not the ability or the industry to perform the work himself, and to 

 allow him to reap all the credit that may be attached to the publication 



