146 Journal New York Entomological Society. [VoI. xv. 



The most aggravating change made in the synonymy by Hampson 

 relates to Feltia subgothica, tricosa and herilis, and the pity of it is that 

 he is correct and must be followed. In the Canadian Entomologist, 

 XXVII, 301, 1895, Slingerland apparently proved to demonstration 

 from published data that Haworth's name subgothica could apply to no 

 other form than that afterward named ducens by Walker. To be sure 

 Tutt in the same journal, XXVIII, 17, 1896, tried to prove that 

 Haworth really figured only a variety of a common European species ; 

 but his argument was not convincing and I believed that Slingerland 

 was right and followed him. Everybody assumed that Haworth's 

 type no longer existed and therein we were in error, for it is now in 

 the British Museum with a clear record as to its identity and it bears 

 out Hampson' s references to the full. What we have been calling 

 subgothica Haw., must now be called ducens, Wlk., and were this all 

 the change would be easy ; but we must now use the name subgothica 

 Haw., to xe'^XdiCe. jaculifera Gn., which will cause trouble in collec- 

 tions and to collectors. Fortunately herilis Grt., remains, and the 

 possibility of change is now exhausted unless some one attempts to 

 argue that, Guenee having included what Grote afterward named her- 

 ilis, as a form of his jaculifera, that name must stand for the distinct 

 form even if one part of it is really a synonym of a previously described 

 name. 



Agrotis docilis Grt. Hampson refers to this my iugeniculafa, and 

 I had been previously advised to the same effect and had accepted the 

 reference, as appears in my check list of 1903, prepared before Hamp- 

 son's volume was published. In my catalogue of 1893 I referred 

 docilis to occulta, and now, after a reexamination of the type, I am 

 not at all ashamed of the reference. The type of docilis is really like 

 a gray occulta. With a greater knowledge of the latter species I am 

 convinced that docilis does not come within its range of variation and 

 to that extent I was wrong. But the type of docilis is not my 

 ingeniculata / There is another species involved here, which will be 

 referred to under Lycophotia astricta Morr. 



I noted in my previous paper that Agrotis hospitalis Grt., was 

 cited as a synonym to Agrotis brunnea Schiff. ; but no American 

 localities are given in the " Habitat." There are no American speci- 

 mens in the British Museum collection and Hampson informs me 

 that his reference was not based upon direct comparisons. I have now 

 seen a number of examples of this species from well separated locali- 



