Ninth Report of the State Entomologist 459 



Mr. Otto Meske's Collection of Lepidoptera. (Albany Evening 

 Times, for October 2Y, 1874. Transactions of the Albany 

 Institute, 1876, viii, pp. 215-220.) 



Commended for its arrangement and preparation and perfection of its 

 specimens : how the field collections were made : the labor devoted to its 

 arrangement : Mr. Meske's devotion to the study : the rare Sphingidee of the 

 collection and full New York representation : abundance of Catocalas in 

 North America : to insure thoroughness in entomology specialists are required. 



Description of a New Species of Calocampa. (Bulletin of the 

 Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, ii, October, 1874, pp. 



188, 189.) 



Calocampa nupera, from Ipcalities in New York, hitherto regarded as 

 identical with C. vetusta of Europe, is described as a new species. 



