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New York Entomological Society, Vol. X, P. 66-7), 

 speaking of culta I said : "I examined the type of culta 

 in the presence of Professor Lintner and he gave me 

 one of the two accompanying specimens which he de- 

 clared were from the original lot. I make this state- 

 ment as authenticating my specimen because since Dr. 

 Lintner's death 1 have been unable to Hnd the type in 

 the Albany collection." 



I made a second search for this tyj)e about a year 

 ago, but it was absent from the collection proper. 

 A while later, however, the State Entomologist, Mr. E. 

 P. Felt, found a "duplicate" box containing some speci- 

 mens, and this box evidently was before us when I con- 

 ferred with Prof. Lintner. In it was the missing type 

 of culta, together with some specimens of vaccinii, 

 bearing my labels, and evidently donated by me at 

 that time. 



I belive that 1 may consider my specimen to be a 

 genuine "paratype" as it bears a manuscript label 

 written by Prof. Lintner, and a MSS. locality label 

 reading "Albany, March 5th, 1883, Dr. Salvin." In 

 Lintner's communication (Lintner's Second Report 

 Ins. N. Y. P. 94, 1885) he says: "bred from larvae 

 found destroying plants in a hot-house in Troy, N. Y., 

 in the month of I'^ebruary." 



I have a manuscript note by Dyar on this subject 

 reading "May not this be some South American 

 species introduced with the plants " Dr. Dyar is 

 probably correct in this surmise, as this specimen, 

 placed by myself as a synonym or rogationis, and by 

 Hampson grouped with dyaus, rogationis and others 

 as 00, is much closer in color and size to the Central 

 and South American forms, which seem to be rather 

 uniformly smaller than those found in the United 

 States. 



I would be grateful for information concerning 

 authentic types of the Plusiina? ; especially would I 

 like to know what became of Grotc's types of species, 

 described after his main collection went to the P.ritish 

 Museum, 



