Editoks 

 Samuel E. Cassino, 

 Louis W. Swett 



Publisher 



Samuel E. Cassino 



Salem, Mass. 



\'oi.. 11 



TuLv 25, 1918 



No. 7 



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A Few Missing Types Located 



By Rodrigues Ottolengui, New York City. 



In Smith's Catalogue of Noctuidse of Boreal North 

 America {Bulletin 44, U. S. National Museum p. 249), 

 speaking of Plusia f ormosa he says : "Mr. Grote men- 

 tions incidentally in the Can. Ent. XXI, 124, that 

 he returned it (the type) to Mr. Treat after descrip- 

 tion. What became of it afterward, I cannot say." 



This winter, while looking over the collection in the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology,at Cambridge, Mass., 

 1 was surprised to find a specimen of this species 

 labeled "type." Subsequently I wrote to Mr. Nathan 

 Banks in regard to the authenticity of this "type" and 

 he wrote to me as follows : "Formosa was described 

 from the collection of J. H. Treat of Lawrence, 

 Mass. by Grote in 1865. The Treat collection was 

 given to us some years ago and contains several 

 Grote types. The label reads: 'Leptina formosa, 

 Grote, Type. Law.' I have no doubt it is Crete's 

 original label. The specimen is also labeled *J. H. 

 Treat's Coll.'" 



Grote described formosa as a Leptina. In Smith's 

 Catalogue above mentioned, (1893) it is listed as 

 Plusia. In Dyar's List of North American Lcpidop- 

 tera {Bulletin 52, U. S. Museum, 1902, p. 198) it 

 occurs among the Polychrysia. llampson in his cata- 



Copyxlght, 1918, by Skmue K). Cauino. All right! rcaerrcd. 



