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Notes on some of the DIUENAL LEPIDOPTERA of the State of New York, 

 with descriptions of their Larvae and Chrysalides. 



By J. A. LINTXER. Utic.\. X. Y. 



The following pages are compiled from a series of Notes, extending 

 over a period of seven yeai's, during which time the writer was engaged 

 in making a collection of the Insects of Schoharie, in Eastern New 

 York, where he was then residing. Believing thorough explorations 

 of limited localities to be of greater value to science, than the simple 

 bringing together through exchange, of large collections, most of the 

 work done, was without the knowledge of what had been achieved by 

 others, and what additions were still needed, toward the completion of 

 our Insect biographies. Through this neglect, now much regretted. 

 many rare opportunities were lost, of adding materially, by additional 

 observations and notes, to the number and value of the few new facts 

 now presented. 



The collection above referred to, numbers over two thousand species, 

 of which about one-half are of the order of Lepidoptera. The Notes. 

 with few exceptions, are of the Lepidoptera, and embrace descriptions 

 more or less full, of one hundred larvae. 



Papilio turnus, Linn. 



The earliest appearance of this butterfly, which I have recorded, is 

 the loth May. In a warm room I have had it emerge as early as 

 December 0th. It is usually not very abundant. In 1856, not one 

 came under my observation, but the year following it was so plentiful 

 that toward the last of June it could occasionally be seen in companies 

 of ten or twelve, settled upon damp patches of earth, after the manner 

 of C. philodice. In 1858 it was as abundant as phUodice — our most 

 common species. The black variety, glaucm, does not occur here. I 

 have very rarely captured the female, and in those which I have bred, 

 the males have largely outnumbered the other sex. 



The larva has been taken the middle of August on the Hop, resting 

 on a slight web, spun by it on the_ upper surface of the leaf. An ex- 

 cellent description of it is given by Benj. D. Walsh, in Vol. I. p. o52 

 of these Proceedings. 



