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rison will have re-described, with impartiality, species previously 

 published by Hiibner, Gueuee, Prof. Riley, Dr. Harvey and myself. 

 I find reason also to seriously object to Mr. Morrison's notice of 

 myself in connection with his new species, A. rufipectus. Mr. Mor- 

 rison says : " Kindly sent to me by Mr. A. E. Grote for determina- 

 tion." I sent Mr. Morrison the specimen in response to his request 

 that I should send him some new species of Agrotis for descrijjtmi. 

 I myself determined this species as new and desired no determina- 

 tion from Mr. Morrison in the matter. With regard to Mr. Morri- 

 son's remarks concerning M. Ulacina (p. 143), I confess I do not 

 recognize the necessity that obliges Mr. Morrison to publish his 

 descriptions of species already published on the plea that his de- 

 scriptions were " written before." Finally, I deprecate the use of the 

 word " erroneous " by a person so inexperienced as Mr. Morrison, 

 and who has already made mistakes which will effectually prevent 

 any belief in his infallibility; as applied to myself, this term comes 

 with additional bad grace, since I shall have always deserved, under 

 any subsequent circumstances, a certain amount of consideration at 

 the hands of Mr. Morrison. 



Of the other species described by Mr. Morrison I have seen only 

 Acronycta increta, Mamestra oUvacea, Segetia fahrefada and Pter- 

 oscia atrata, and which appeared to me valid. With regard to one 

 of Mr. Morrison's species, Agrotis tmimacula, I have had some 

 correspondence with him ; I believe it to be entitled to a distinct 

 name, although so very nearly related to the European augur. The 

 name used by Mr. Morrison being preoccupied for a species of 

 Agrotis from Andalusia by Dr. Staudinger, I propose to call our 

 American species A. liaruspica. 



The wholesale appropriation and misapplication of Hiibner's 

 names by Treitschke has been more or less quietly acquiesced in by 

 subsequent German Entomologists until quite recently. In France, 

 the wrong appears to have been increased and the injury aggravated. 

 Boisduval assisted at this partition of scientific property and wrote 

 of " mon genre " at the expense of the Augsburg student. Guenee, 

 whose description of species is so excellent, re-named Hiibner's gen- 

 era ad libitum and styled the Verzeichniss " un ouvrage mort ne." 

 In vitality the Verzeichniss compares favorably to-day with any 

 other publication on its subject. In England, Hiibner found a con- 



