Jan., '09] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 35 



Apatela oblinita S. & A. Bred in May, taken in August. Larvae on 

 smartweed. 



Harrisimemna trisignata Walk. Have taken it years ago. 



Microcoelia obliterate! Grt. May and August, rare. 



Polygrammate hebraicum Hubn. Specimen in State Museum taken by 

 me, but no date. 



Diphthera fallax H. S. August, rare. 



Crambodes talidiformis- Guen. August. 



Platysenta videns Guen.. July to September. 



Balsa malana Fitch. June to August. 



Perigea vecors Guen. May. 



Perigea epopea Cram. September and October, rare. 



Perigea sutor Guen. July to October, common. 



Oligia chalcedonica Hubn. May to November. 



Oligia grata Hubn. June to November. 



Hadena wiscloides Guen. June to early September. 



Hadena cariosa Guen. June 17, 1907. 



Dipterygia scabriuscula L. July and August. 



Actinotia ramosula Guen. July to September. 



Pyrophila pyramidoidcs Guen. July to September, not common. 



Prodenia commelinae S. & A. July to October. Common. 



Prodenia ornithogalli Guen. June to October. 



Laphygma fmglperda S. & A. Common. Late July to early November. 

 Very common in 1906. I counted about 600 of these moths 

 on five sugared trees on August 23, and they were present 

 in the same numbers the next two nights. The same five 

 trees were visited by about 300 on the night of Oct. 3. 



Rhynchagrotis anchoceliodes Guen. October, not common. 



A grot is badinodis Grt. Late October, not common. 



Agroiis ypsilon Rott. One of our most abundant cutworms. The adults 

 have been taken from early June to late November. 



Peridroma margaritosa Haw. and P. m. saucia Hubn. Another common 

 cutworm. Adults from June to October. 



Peridroma inciris Guen. Late June to late November. Larva feeds on 

 grass. 



Noctua c-nigrum L. early May to early June, and again from mid- 

 August to mid-October. Not common. 



Noctua lubricans Guen. Mid-July to mid-November. 



Fcltia subgothica Haw. Early October, rare. 



Fcltia jaculifera Guen. and var. herilis Grt. Both forms common in 

 fall, from late August to late October. 



Feltia annexa Treits. Possibly our commonest cutworm. Adult, 

 have been taken from early June to late November. 



Feltia malefida Guen. Mid-July to late October, not very common. 



Paragrotis bostoniensis Grt. Oct. 9, 1906. 



Paragrotis messoria Harr. Mid-August to mid-October. 



