Report of the State Entomoloqist 179 



Additions to the State Collection. 



The aggregate of the additions to the State collection through 

 the Entomologist from January to August inclusive, as already 

 reported to your board, is 1775 specimens, which, with a few 

 exceptions, have been ticketed with locality and date of collection. 

 Of these, 1399 have been mounted and 388 have been labeled 

 with their scientific name. 



Contributions to the collection have been made, during the 

 same time, by 52 contributors, consisting of about 160 examples. 



Collections Made in the Adirondack Mountains. 

 The additions made to the State collection have been mainly, 

 as in preceding years, in the Adirondack region of the State. 

 The collections made in Keene valley, Essex county, this season, 

 during portions of the months of July and August, were larger 

 than usual. Lepidoptera attracted to light were unusually 

 abundant. Over six hundred examples, mostly belonging to the 

 NoctiiidcB, were taken by this means. Two species of Plusia — 

 a genus containing pohaps the most beautiful of our Noctuids — 

 P. u-aureum and P. moriuorum, which in former years have 

 been comparatively rare in the Adirondacks, although belonging 

 to high altitudes, were this year really common — more common, 

 indeed, than any other species. The first Plusia purpurigera 

 ever taken by me was captured on August Hth. As the Plusias 

 have place among the rarer of our Noctuid^, and are always 

 regarded as desirable additions to collections, the several species 

 taken at Keeno valley this season, with the number of each, is 

 herewith given : 



Plusia (Deva) purpurigera Walker, 1 



P. Eerea Hiibner, 1 



P. geroides Grote, 9 



P. balluca Oeyer, 8 



P. bimaculata Stephens, 4 



The total number of Plusias — all taken within doors — was 183, 

 not including many worn and rejec ed examples appearing in 

 August. 



Comparing the above with the collections reported by Mr. W. 

 W. Hill, in the western portion of the Adirondacks (Lewis 

 county) during the four years, 1875-1879.* we find that nearly 



♦In Seventh Report on the Survey of the Adirondack Region of New York, 1880, p. 387. 



Plusia precationis Guenee, 10 

 P. u-aureum Grote, 84 



P. mortuorum Guenee, 58 



P. simplex Gnenee, 8 



