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ters to a meeting of the Brooklyn Ento. Soc, (this was after my 

 catalogue was printed) to show me how unfounded was Mr. 

 Strecker's claim, 1 showed him my evidence, which astonished 

 him. I asked him whether with the evidence I could have de- 

 cided otherwise, and he answered, emphatically, " No." I am 

 aware Mr. Edwards yet gives the names to Mr. Grote, but he does 

 it on the basis that probably Mr, Grote's proof sheets were first 

 run off, and anything printed, though uncorrected and undis- 

 tributed, is publication. I do not look at publication in that 

 light, and decide otherwise. 



I do not prefer the name Aincstris to the name Anna. 

 Any one looking in Staudinger's Catalogue at the names of the 

 Catocala; of the European fauna, and over a catalogue of the 

 names of our own species, will see that the names run almost uni- 

 versally in certain lines. " Levettei^' though from the name of a 

 gentleman of worth and ability, is not in either of those lines of 

 names. And that name is the only one I referred to when I said 

 Mr. Grote's names were not all Catocaline, as Mr, Grote knew 

 when he wrote. Furthermore, Aincstris was not named in honor 

 of Swinburne's heroine, any more than Mr. Grote's Anna was 

 named in honor of the prophetess of that name. 



Concerning the position and specific worth of many so-called 

 ;^pecies, each student has a right to his own opinion, I followed 

 in the catalogue the definitions laid down by me in the introduc- 

 tion, and in so doing followed Drs. Le Conte and Horn in the 

 Coleoptera, Dr. Staudinger, in his catalogue of the European 

 fauna, and Dr. Packard in his Geometrid Moths of N. A. And, 

 -while in some respects my opinion has changed, in the main I 

 see no reason to doubt the substantial correctness of my catalogue, 

 Mr. Grote says, " it was a happy stroke and worthy of the 

 disciple of Mr. Strecker to refer semirelicta as a van of nnijuga 

 and remove /^/r^ to some distance as a distinct species." If Mr. 

 Grote will refer to the catalogue he will see semirelicta is a van 

 o{ Briscis, not of xmijuga. In the determination of semirelicta I 

 had the advantage of both the literature and type of the species 

 and am not in the minority in my judgment of its specific value. 

 I put Beaniana where, from the " literature on the subject," I 

 thought it ought to belong, zxi^ pura is next. If Beafiiana is not 

 in its proper place, pura certainly is, unless, as 1 think now, it 

 ought to be put before Briseis rather than after, 



Calebs is a good species. Mr, Strecker was responsible for 

 the catalogue determination as was stated in the catalogue, and it 

 is the only thing for which he was responsible. It is true, how- 

 ever, he still says, that he was misled by dark specimens of Badia 

 identified by Mr. Grote as Coelebs. Mr. Grote, if such gross lack 

 of appreciation be allowed me, is not absolutely beyond such 

 mistakes. He once upon a time identified many of the Heterocera 

 for me, receiving therefor my written and substantial thanks. 

 Among the insects sent were two Catacolai, One a typical spec- 



