III. A PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF 



WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA COLLECTED IN THE 



VICINITY OF PITTSBURGH. 



By Henry Engel. 



About four years ago the Entomological Society of Western Penn- 

 sylvania adopted a resolution providing for the preparation of a list of 

 the lepidoptera found in this section of the country. For various 

 reasons, principally lack of interest on the part of the membership, and 

 lack of knowledge of the material contained in the smaller collections, 

 the undertaking made little progress, and was finally abandoned. 



My personal knowledge of all the local collections has led me to 

 believe that the lepidopterous fauna of our district has been pretty 

 thoroughly explored, and I have therefore thought it advisable myself 

 to prepare a list. The area covered by this list is comparatively small. 

 The most of the collections made in the vicinity of Pittsburgh have 

 been secured within a radius of about fifteen miles from the heart of 

 the city. At New Brighton, Pennsylvania, Mr. Frank A. Merrick and 

 his son, the late Henry D. Merrick, accumulated a very interesting 

 collection by industrious work. Occasional trips by local collectors 

 to Ohio Pyle, Pennsylvania, have added a number of interesting 

 species to our faunal list. 



The various collections examined by me and containing the mate- 

 rial here listed are the following : The collections in the Carnegie 

 Museum, gathered by Dr. W. J. Holland, Mr. Hugo Kahl, Mr. Henry 

 G. Klages, and Mr. H. H. Smith ; the collections of the Merrick 

 Museum, New Brighton, Pennsylvania ; the private collections of Mr. 

 Zarobsky of Wilmerding, of Mr. P. Foerster of Walls, of Mr. Frank 

 Knechtel of Swissvale, of Messrs. F. H. Lippold, Christian Meyer, 

 and F. C. Overbeck of Allegheny, and those of Messrs. F. W. Friday, 

 F. Marloff, and George and Bernard Krautwurm of Pittsburgh. To 

 these I may add the collections made by myself, which are in large 

 part in the Carnegie Museum. All of the gentlemen above mentioned 

 have cheerfully given me their assistance in the preparation of this list 

 by granting me the privilege of examining their collections, by loaning 



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