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mination, and one returned it under the name of C. frustulum, and the 

 others said it was new to them. It does not compare with any examples 

 of frushdum that I have seen, and I therefore venture to describe it as a 

 new species. 



NOTE ON STATEN ISLAND NOCTUID^. 



BY A. R. GROTE, A. M. 



My earliest collecting field was the south side of Staten Island, where 

 I found many rare insects, especially among the Coleoptera. This south 

 beach of the Island is visited by the warm spring coming from the south 

 very early in the year, and is a good collecting field. Staten Island is a 

 continuation of the Jersey coast, and one finds on it southern species of 

 butterflies such as Argytinis Idalia, which are less frequent on Long 

 Island, the next extension of the coast to the north. So far as the fauna 

 is concerned, I am inclined to class Staten Island with New Jersey, rather 

 than with New York. It forms the beautiful southern boundary of New 

 York Harbor. At the same time Mr. Davis informs us that the Red 

 Squirrel, not uncommon on the mainland of New Jersey, is not found on 

 Staten Island, and thus has not crossed the narrow Kills. But I have 

 abundant faith it will yet turn up on the Island, where all good things 

 naturally live-. I Have collected on Staten Island a good many of those 

 kinds of moths which come up our coast with the warmer weather and 

 the Gulf Stream. I have in various papers called attention to the seasonal 

 migration, from south to north, of many species of moths, which adds so 

 much to the fauna of the United States. These moths have found a 

 lodgment in Florida, but probably do not breed to the northward. I have 

 taken on Staten Island Euthisanotia Timais, the Spanish Moth, as also 

 Aletia Argillacea, the Cotton Worm. So far as I know, the northern 

 limit of successful hibernation of the latter is not yet definitely ascertained, 

 notwithstanding all that has been published by the U. S. Government on 

 the subject. Also in the fall I have taken Anomis Erosa Hiibn., a Noctuid 

 allied to the Cotton Worm, although in the cut of wing and color it 

 resembles Eucirroedia Pampinatrix Guen., a Noctuid which has, I 

 beheve, real affinities with Scoliopteryx Libatrix, a Noctuid found in North 

 America and Europe. This latter inhabits Canada and Hudson's Bay 



