LIST OF THE MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA 



Of Buffalo anoZ Vicinity. 



By Edward P. Van Duzee. 



The list herewith submitted although confessedly far from 

 complete includes all the species of Lepidoptera, exclusive of 

 the Micros, known by our local collectors to have been captured 

 in this city and its immediate vicinage. A radius of fifteen 

 miles from Buffalo will include the localities from which nearly 

 all the material here recorded has been derived. A few species, 

 taken at a somewhat greater distance have been included to 

 bring the range of the list into accord with that adopted by Mr. 

 David F. Day in his List of Plants of Buffalo and Vicinity. All 

 the localities mentioned in the present list appear on the map 

 published in Vol. IV of this Bulletin to accompany Mr. Day's 

 paper. 



The Author's part in the preparation of this list has been 

 merely that of compiler and co-contributor. Our local collectors 

 have without exception exhibited their interest in the work by 

 furnishing full lists of their captures with many valuable notes, 

 and have very generously placed their entire collections at the 

 Writer's disposal for study and comparison and by this means a 

 number of synonymical errors have been avoided that might 

 otherwise have seriously impaired the value of the list. 



The collectors who have supplied the bulk of the material 

 and to whom the value of the list is consequently due are as 

 follows: Prof. David S. Kellicott, material taken in and about 

 Buffalo; Mr. Alva H. Kilman, material taken at Ridgeway, 

 Ont. , a station near the shore of Lake Erie about thirteen miles 

 west of Buffalo; Mr. Philip Fisher and Mr. J. P. Will, material 

 captured largely at electric lights in this city or bred from larvae 

 taken in the surrounding towns; and the collections of the 

 Author made mostly at Lancaster, about ten miles east of Buffalo. 

 A few valuable notes have also been added by Mr. Wm. Mueser 

 of this city. In addition to the above all accessible literature 

 likely to contain notes on local forms has been carefully exan> 



