April, '09] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS l6o 



A Partial List of the Lepidoptera of Pickaway 



County, Ohio. 

 BY B. R. BALES, M.D. 



The following list of the Lepidoptera of Pickaway County, 

 Ohio, consists only of specimens actually taken within a radius 

 of five miles of Circleville, the county seat, in 1907 and 1908, 

 at odd times and spare moments in the active life of a general 

 practitioner of medicine. 



Being the list of the specimens taken in only two years, it 

 must necessarily be incomplete, but I hope to supplement it 

 with a further list of new specimens taken in 1909 and 1910. 



Those species that I have classed as "common" or "rare," 

 are only common or rare as I have found them in 1907 and 

 1908. 



The collecting ground lies in the level, fertile valley of the 

 Scioto River, and is mainly under cultivation, with an occa- 

 sional tract of woodland. There are a number of small streams 

 of varying size, near which are favorite places for both moths 

 and butterflies. Pickaway County lies a little south of the 

 center of Ohio. 



The arrangement and sequence used by Dr. W. J. Holland 

 in his Moth and Butterfly Books is followed, as far as possible, 

 throughout the list. 



I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness to Mr. Frank Haim- 

 bach, of Philadelphia, and Prof. Jas. S. Hine, of the Ohio State 

 University, for kindly assistance in the identification of doubt- 

 ful specimens. 



RHOPALOCERA. 



Anosia plexippus (Linn). Very common. An immense migrating 

 army of this species passed through Circleville on October 4th, 1007. 

 A record of this can be found in ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS, Vol. XVIII, 

 No. 9, p. 402. 



Argynnis cybcle (Fab.). Common in the hay fields and meadows. 



Argynnis idalia (Drury). Not common. Several taken. 



Phyciodes nycteis (Doubleday & Hewitson). Not common. 



Phyciodes batesi (Reakirt). Common along the small water courses. 



ijrapta interrogation's (Fab.) form fabrici (Edw.). Common. 



