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The collections in Lepidoptera were not large, the locality not 

 being favorable to the multiplication of insects of this order. But 

 few species of butterflies were seen.* Danais Arcliippus (Fabr.) 

 and Pyrameis Atalanta (Linn.) were so abundant in a field of buck- 

 wheat that three or four individuals could be taken in a single sweep 

 of the net. Associated with them were numbers of one of the most 

 brilliant and beautiful of our moths, Plusia Tnortuorwnx Guen — a 

 decidedly upland species. Its quick rise from the blossoms of the 

 buckwheat, its rapid flight for a short distance, sudden dropping to 

 the ground and running away to shelter, made it a difiicult insect 

 to capture. The elegantly marked Hoiaohadena atrifasoiata Morr., 

 of which the first example taken in the Adiroudacks in the year 

 1876, commanded in exchange with an enthusiastic lepidopterist, 

 other insects of the value of $50, was taken from flowers of 

 Eupatoriuin purpureum. 



Coleoptera were not numerous. Several species of prett}'- Lep- 

 turians were found upon the golden rods, and a single example of 

 "the large and elegant Ze/>i;M?'« soalaris Sa.y,''^ as characterized by 

 Dr. LeConte (p. 313 of Classification of the Coleoptera of North 

 America), now the type and only species of the genus BeUamira, was 

 driven npina Solidago bordered road and taken upon the wing. It 

 was seen under the same circumstances in other instances, and when 

 in flight, and displaying the golden sericeous hairs clothing the tip of 

 its abdomen, it resembled so closely a similarly tipped Asilus fly 

 that it was mistaken for it. Dicerca inanca Lee. (apparently not 

 tuberculata of L. & G. — see Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, ix, p. 235) — 

 a rare Buprestrid, was captured on the floor of the piazza of the 

 Sagamore hotel. 



Neuroptera, which should abound in the lake region, were few iu 

 number. The only species observed in abundance were the com- 

 mon Polysteochotes punctatus (Fabr.), of which hundreds could be 

 seen resting on the parlor walls, and a species of EpheineridxB^ on 

 the slats of the window blinds and edge of the clapboards of the 

 hotel — Pentagonia mttigera Walsh. 



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About one thousand insects were collected, mounted and labeled 

 with locality and date of capture. Probably the more interesting 

 and valuable forms taken are among those for which there has not 

 yet been found the opportunity for study and determination. 



*Tlie following species only, were observed: Colias Philodice and Pieris rapm, 

 not abundant; Danais Acliippns, abundant; Argynnis Cyhela, A. Aj)hrodite and 

 A. Atlantis, all. in poor condition; Argynnis Bellona not abundant; Pyrameis 

 Atlanta, »h\\n(X^ni\ Satyinis Ifephele,Ta.re; Chrysophamis Americana, very abun- 

 dant, and frequent on golden rods; Lyccena pseudargiolus, rare, one example; 

 Vanessa Milhertii, a few. 



No examples were seen of papilio, Qrapta, Thecla, Pomphila or Nisoniades. 



