178 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
DEAR SIR,— September 18th, 1873. 
It is my duty to say a word to your readers in reference to my 
- accusations against Mr. Grote, and which appeared in your last issue. 
Those accusations have occasioned a good deal of feeling betwixt 
Messrs. Grote and Strecker, if one may judge from the correspondence 
which has since passed between them, and which, by the courtesy of the 
respective gentlemen, I have been permitted to see. 
Without betraying any confidence, I may say that the whole thing is 
resolved into a question of veracity as betwixt those two gentlemen, and 
I must say that while I feel confident that neither party would state a 
falsehood, there certainly is a great imperfection of memory somewhere— 
where, I, of course, cannot decide. 
The statements made in my note, already referred to, were almost 
literally as told me by Mr. Strecker. Mr. Grote denies that he received 
any limiting instructions from Strecker. So the matter stands. 
Let the thing drop altogether. It is not of sufficient importance to 
waste another sheet of paper about it. My object was not, Sir, as you 
imagined, to enlist a childish sympathy in my favor, it was meant to check 
a practice of which I had heard a good deal, and which, if continued, 
could not fail to exert an injurious influence on Entomological Science in 
America. 
W. V. ANDREWS. 
MR. STRECKER’S CORRECTIONS. 
DEAR SIR,— 
Mr. Strecker, of Reading, Penn., has been in correspondence with 
Mr. H. B. Moschler, who has written some very valuable articles on the 
Lepidopterous Fauna of Labrador, in the Wiener Entomologische 
Monatschrift, and whose description of Gelechia labradorensis I have 
translated in these pages. Mr. Strecker corrects the name speczosisstma 
Mosch. to sfeciosa Mosch., in the citation of a species of Arctia in Mr. 
Robinson’s and my List (1868). 
This is right, and | committed an error in transcribing the name, and 
one that escaped me on the proofs, but was detected about fifteen 
minutes after the printed copies were in my hands. Mr. Strecker next, on 
