156 TWENTY-SIXTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. 



Scepsis fulvicollis (Ruin. ). 



Two males and two females of this usually rare species were col 

 lected at Bethlehem, Albany county, on September 14th, 1870, rest 

 ing on or flying about the blossoms of Solidago at mid-day. 



This accords with an observation of Doubleday : * &quot;I took it in 

 September, in Illinois, on flowers, especially on the different species 

 of Solidago, flying by day.&quot; He also adds, &quot; I took it in Florida by 

 night ; for they used to fly to my lamp. I do not remember to have 

 taken one by day there.&quot; 



I have only taken the species (and its allies) by day, and I know of 

 no other instance of its capture at lights. 



A perfectly fresh specimen was taken at Schoharie (the only 

 instance, during several years, that it came under my notice there), 

 resting on a window pane within a room which it had entered 

 through an open door. 



I have previously noticed the attractiveness of the Solidago to 

 LycotnorpJia pholus (Drury),f six individuals having been observed 

 by me regaling themselves on the blossoms of a single plant, while a 

 hundred or more could have been collected at the time from the same 

 locality (a hill-side at Schoharie, August 16, 1859). Melsheimer states 

 that the larva of this species is found on the lichens growing on the 

 trunks of hickory trees. 



* Entomological Correspondence of T. W. Harris, 1869, p. 122. 



f Twenty-third Ann. Rep. on the N. Y. St. Cab. N. H., 1873, p. 193. 



