154 THIRTIETH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. [42] 



ative abundance : the larger number of these were attracted to 

 sugar. In Vol. VIII of the same journal, p. 12, Mr. 0. S. 

 Westcott publishes a list of eighty-three species of Noctuas, 

 taken by him at sugar, at May wood, Cook Co., 111. 



In a list (still in MS.) of collections at sugar made by me 

 at Schenectady, N. Y., in 1876, two hundred and twenty-six 

 species of Lepidoptera are recorded, embracing a few Bomby- 

 cidse, about twenty-five species of Phalsenidse, a few Pyralidse 

 and Microlepidoptera the remainder Noctuidse. 



In 1873, lists were given in the 23d N. Y. State Museum 

 Report, of the Butterflies and the Sphingidre of the State of 

 New York. Similar lists of the Bombycidai and Noctuidoe 

 are in preparation. 



Mr. Henry Edwards, of San Francisco, who has contributed 

 so largely to our knowledge of the Lepidoptera of our west 

 ern coast, is engaged upon a Synopsis of the Butterflies of the 

 Pacific coast, which is promised for the press during the pres 

 ent j^ear. Mr. Grote has published several lists of the Noc- 

 tuidse of Texas. Will not the members of the Cambridge 

 Entomological Club favor us with a list of Lepidoptera col 

 lected on Mount Washington, as a companion to Mr. Austin s 

 list of Coleoptera of the same locality.* 



*Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Mount Washington, N. H., with Descriptions of New 

 Species, byE. P. Austin and J. L. Le Conte, M. D. ; iu Proc. Bust. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. 

 XVI, pp. 265-376. 



