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nothing to do with the printing of mine, which was done in a dis- 

 tant city by a scientific society. My "■ extras " were in the 

 hands of correspondents some time before Mr. Strecker's num- 

 ber appeared. The date my article bears is the date given by 

 the society, and for which it is responsible. It rests with Mr. 

 Strecker and his friends to attack the American Entomological 

 Society to disturb its dates. As a matter of fact, my paper was 

 printed first, but it is enough for me that the society's signatures 

 give the date before that on which Mr. Strecker's number was issued. 

 The American Entomological Society will be able to defend its 

 method of printing its Proceedings, which is intended to protect 

 students who place their papers in its hands from just such 

 attempts as Mr. Strecker's. But I have shown the justice of my 

 case as far as it is possible for me to do when I prove the real 

 date of Mr. Strecker's irresponsible publication. If a scientific 

 society then shows by its signatures that my paper is printed 

 before the corrected date of issue of my contestant, there can be 

 no doubt that my names have priority, and Mr. Strecker's attempt 

 to deprive them unlawfully of their advantage should meet with 

 the fate it deserves. 



I am spared much by Mr. Strecker's own admission in a 

 later number, under " Notes," that my paper is dated September. 

 This statement is accompanied by one of his own, that his publi- 

 cation of the species was " printed August." This is absolutely 

 false, and if Mr. Strecker will challenge the statement the proof 

 is ready for him. The man who openly advertises that he 

 ^'covets" specimens may not be sensitive to shame. 



HOMOPYRALIS REPENTIS. n. S. 



S . This species looks like a small Hoinoptera, but the palpi 

 are projected and pointed. It is about the size of Discalis, but 

 the four wings are of a paler brown, with less of the dark suffu- 

 sions and shadings of either Discalis or Tactiis. This latter is the 

 type of the genus, and appears to have a wide distribution along 

 the Atlantic coast. Mr. H. B. Moeschler records it from Guiana, 

 and says also that he has received it from the West Indies. The 

 new species, Rcpentis, has the lines fine, black, cleanly marked. 

 The outer or transverse posterior line, commences at apical third, 

 and forms two undulations opposite the cell, running in very 

 strongly at the middle of the wing, to below a black, moderate, 

 upright, solid, discal mark, the reniform spot. Thence it runs 

 unevenly, near the median shade, to internal margin. The med- 

 ian shade is diffuse. The inner line is uneven, black, not arcuate, 

 with a superior inward sinus. The base of the wing and the sub- 

 terminal space are a little darker than the rest. The sub-terminal 

 line is indistinct, threadlike, uneven, and is inaugurated at costa by 

 a thicker black streak, which contrasts very strongly and appears 

 to run at variance with the course of the line itself. The fringes 

 are alternately darker and paler brown. The secondaries are 



