58 PSYCHE [June 
INCIDENTAL CAPTURES OF LEPIDOPTERA AT PLANO, TEXAS. 
BY E. S. TUCKER, BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE. 
In connection with my study of the green bug at Plano, Collin county, Texas, 
from the first week of May to the end of December, 1907, a considerable number of 
insects in all of the principal orders were personally collected, and the results ob- 
tained from the identifications of the Lepidoptera thus taken are herewith presented. 
Only a few butterflies were captured, since opportunities for collecting Lepi- 
doptera especially were limited mostly to night work, which, however, proved to be 
an enjoyable diversion. At such times, the light of one or two ordinary lanterns 
shining against the breeding tent was employed with good success in the attraction of 
nocturnal flyers, and on this account, the records of night collecting predominate in 
my list. The locality in which the collecting was done is fairly typical of the black- 
belt prairie lands of northern ‘Texas, where much of the country is under cultivation. 
Most of the specimens were determined at the U. 5. entomological laboratory 
in Dallas, Texas, with the assistance of Mr. F. C. Pratt, and acknowledgments are 
also due Dr. H. G. Dyar and Mr. A. Busck of Washington, D. C., through the 
courtesy of Dr. L. O. Howard, for valuable aid. For a few other determinations, 
credit is given in the particular cases to Dr. W. G. Dietz and Mr. W. D. Kearfott. 
Dr. Dyar’s catalogue has been followed as a guide for the nomenclature and arrange- 
ment of my list. Permission to publish this list has been kindly granted by Prof. 
C. E. Sanborn, who, during the time of collection, directed my experimental work. 
Summary of Families and Species. 
Pieridie 2 Lithosiidee 1 Megalopygidie 1 
Nymphalidee 5 Arctiidee 5 Pyralidee 34 
Lymneedidie 1 Noctuidee 3) Pterophoridie 2 
Lyceenidie 1 Notodontidee 3 ‘Tortricidee 6 
Hesperiidee 3 Lasiocampidee 1 Yponomeutidie 2 
Sphingidee | Geometridie 12 Gelechiidee 1 
Saturnidee 1 Nolidee 1 Blastobasidee 1 
Ceratocampide 1 Psychidee 1 Elachistidee 2 
Syntomidee 2 Cochlidiidee 1 Tineidee 5 
Total number of species, 130. 
