In the Can. Ent. for November, 1895 (Vol. XXVII., 301-307), I discussed all the evidence then accessible to me in regard to the identity of this insect. According to Prof. J. B. Smith, our American authority on American Noctuids, I showed “very conclusively that subgothica, Haw., is correctly used for our American species” (Can. Ent., XXVIII., 4). However, Mr. J. W. Tutt, who has written much about British Noctuids, in an opinionated reply (Can. Ent., XXVIII., 17), tries to prove that Haworth described a variety of tritici, a well-known European (not an American) insect. After a careful study of several authentic specimens of tritici, representing nearly as many varieties, from Dr. Staudinger, and after considerable correspondence with both English and American lepidopterists who are familiar with tritici, I became convinced that the species, in any of its numerous variations, never approaches near enough to what Americans have called subgothica, Haw., to be easily mistaken for the latter; their antennæ are quite different structurally. But Mr. Tutt states: “I can match exactly the specimens which Stephens figures, and Humphrey and Westwood copy, with undoubted genuine specimens of Agrotis tritici.” Naturally, I was anxious to see one of these specimens, and, under the circumstances, I anticipated that a request to examine one of them would be readily granted.