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once figuring it, associating Dr. Fitch's name with the species and giv- 

 ing my doubts, I finally became convinced that, as more pink Eehothuls 

 turned up in the West, I might be wrong and, to avoid a new name, pro- 

 posed in the Brooklyn Bulletin that, if I was wrong, the insect should 

 still be called oolupia, Gr. I catalogued it thus until the fact could be 

 substantiated (as it now is) and Mr. Smith accuses me of dishonesty. 

 And by figuring and redescribiug it, it is I, after all, who have made 

 volupia known.^ I described nobilu from specimens brought by Mr. 

 Ridings from Colorado about seventeen years ago ; I figured it and since 

 then never identified it in any paper, nor to the best of my recollection 

 ever saw or determined it again. On the strength of somebody's speci- 

 mens from Texas named "nobilis," which turn out to be different, Mr. 

 Smith quotes nobilis, Gr., as a synonym, and gives the unfounded im- 

 pression that I had mixed up two species as "nooUis," of which I am 

 completely innocent. His citation could only, be warranted had I in 

 print described a wrong insect as -nobilu, Gr." Out of about 100 

 species of Heliothmae, I have described about fifty, four of which Mr. 

 Smith rejects as color varieties, but quotes them as synonyms. 



Mr. Smith says he supposes he will have to wait till "accident turns 

 up" my H. pictipennis, which I have given a beautiful and exact fig- 

 ure of, as well as a complete description. He passes over a number of 

 much more doubtful species without a word to contradict my statement 

 that my Limbalis, which he does not know, is not allied to Margmata, 

 but to Arci/era, by saying that it must be near Mr. Edwards' Constncta. 



REMARKS. 



Taking Mr. Smith's paper on the Heliothinae only from its scientific 

 side and°treating it as an advance in our knowledge of the North Ameri- 

 can species, which I am perfectly willing to do, the following remarks 

 may be of assistance : Of my own species not known to Mr. Smith, 

 Stilla is undoubtedly a valid and most beautiful species, congeneric with 

 Angulata, and Professor Snow has the type. I wish that Mr. Smith 

 would follow Dr. Speyer and take PyrrMa for this genus. Chancka is 

 not a pure assemblage as defined by Lederer ; its type is Delphinn and 

 as my Per nana is not congeneric, we have yet no North American 

 Chariclea. I have referred Cirrhnphanus to the Stiriinae, perhaps a 



