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A List of the Butterflies of Iowa. 



By A. W. LINDSAY, Iowa City, Iowa. 



In preparing a review of the butterflies of Iowa the writer 

 has had occasion during the past few months to examine most 

 of the collections now in existence in the State and the local 

 lists heretofore published. After examining the collection on 

 which the most extensive of the latter was based it was very 

 evident that records could not be taken from these lists with- 

 out verification and that the literature previously sent out from 

 the State was deplorably inaccurate. The work of compiling 

 this list has therefore been carried on with two things in mind ; 

 first, the examination of all material obtainable in the State 

 and second, the correction of such errors as have been pub- 

 lished in the several local lists used. 



The collections examined represent the work of from one to 

 thirty years, and in most cases are fairly complete for the lo- 

 calities which they represent. They are in the possession of 

 the following persons and institutions and were made in the 

 neighborhood of the towns where they now repose. 



(1) Mr. A. F. Porter, Decorah, la. 



(2) Mrs. J. E. Hoopes, Muscatine. 



(3) Prof. H. F. Wickham, Iowa City. 



(4) Dr. G. L. Stempel. Macedonia. 



(5) Coe College, Cedar Rapids. 



(6) Grinnell College, Grinnell. 



(7) The writer's collection made in Woodbury and Dickin- 

 son Counties. 



In addition to these, lists have been furnished by Mrs. O. F. 

 Hiser, Nevada, la., and Mr. F. M. Holmes, Prescott, la., and 

 Mr. R. L. Mayhew, of Decatur, Illinois, has contributed the 

 records which he made at Mount Pleasant, la. Assistance has 

 been given by Dr. Henry Skinner, Dr. J. McDunnough, Dr. H. 

 G. Dyar, Mr. Nathan Banks and Mr. R. A. Leussler in deter- 

 mining specimens and clearing up some obscure points of classi- 

 fication. As the list is presented here it follows the nomenclature 

 given in Dyar's "List of North American Lepidoptera." 



