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XVII. Supplement to the List of North American 



Noctuidae 



BY AUG. R. GROTE. 

 [Read before this Society, January 8, 1875.] 



Since the publication of the List of North American Noctuidae, 

 I have published descriptions of several additional species, chiefly in 

 a paper presented to the Academy of Natural Sciences, Nov. 3d, 

 1874, printed copies of which were distributed Dec. 15th, 1874. 

 More than ten days later there appeared a paper by Mr. H. K. Mor- 

 rison, from the proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory, describing and indicating a number of new species, a few of 

 which had been previously submitted to me, Avhile at least one de- 

 scribed by myself in the paper above referred to appears under a 

 new name. The facts attending the publication of the tAvo papers 

 accord to my own the priority. For nearly a year I had been in 

 constant correspondence with Mr. Morrison and a large number of 

 specimens of his were sent to me from time to time in boxes through 

 the mail for identification. I performed the work voluntarily, Avithout 

 benefit to myself, and I was fortunate in being able to save Mr. Mor- 

 rison much labor and a certain number of synonyms by my opinions 

 on his material. I am duly rewarded for my complaisance by petu- 

 lant and unnecessary remarks in this paper of Mr. Morrison's. I 

 am told for instance on page 154, that " E. coccineifascia and E. 

 rosaha [i. e. rosalba] are " figured very poorly by Mr. Grote," whereas 

 / never figured the species at all, the plate in question being executed 

 by Mr. Herman Strecker for the American Entomological Society. 



I am also taken to task for the shortness of my description of 

 Dianthoecia leucogj-amma, which Mr. Morrison pretends to be unable 

 to be *' fully satisfied " about. The description will, I think, com- 

 pare very favorably in length, with any of j\lr. Morrison's of his 



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