[195] DATES OF COLLECTION OF NEW YORK HETEROCERA. 63 



Noctua baja W.- V Aug. 10. 



Nootna plecta Linn June 30. 



Cirroedia painpina Guen Sept. 5. 



Phlogophora Iris Guen June 28. 



Aplecta herbida IF".- V July 18, Aug. 11. 



Aplecta nimbosa Guen June 19. 



Hadena xylinoides Guen May 20, Aug. 18. 



Hadena distincta Hubn May 7. 



Hadena badistriga Grote v July 26. 



Cucullia convexipennis Gr.-Rob July 21. 



Cucullia convexipennis, larva, on Solidago Oct. 10. 



Cucullia intermedia Speyer May 27, Aug. 10. 



Cucullia intermedia, larva Sept. 14. 



Xylina cinerea Riley April 8, Oct. 10. 



Xylina petrificata ( TF.-F.) May 6. 



Xylina Bethunei Gr.-Rob March , Sept. 12, Oct. 7. 



Rhodophora florida Guen July 17. 



Anthcecia bina Guen June 16. 



Chamyris cerintha (Treits.) July 2. 



Erastria synochites Gr.-Rob June 12. 



Erastria muscosula Guen June 14, June 20. 



Erastria nigritula Guen June 8, Aug. 30. 



Erastria carneola Guen June 9. 



Leptosia concinnimacula Guen May 18. 



Eriopus monetifera Guen July 7. 



Plusia precationis Guen June 3. 



Plusia balluca Hubn July 14, July 23. 



Plusia aeroides Grote July 8, July 28. 



Plusia festucse (Linn.) , July 25, Aug. 1. 



Plusia simplex Guen Sept. 8. 



Plusiodonta compressipalpis Guen June 13. 



Deva purpurigera Walk July 3. 



Gonoptera libatrix (Linn.} 1 May 6, Aug. 3. 



Catocala piatrix Grote Aug. 20. 



Catocala amatrix Hubn Sept. 12. 



Catocala briseis Edw Aug. 10. 



Catocala relicta Walk Aug. 9, Sept. 14. 



Catocala unijuga Walk Aug. 15. 



1 The larva is of a bright velvety green color, having on each side a yellow stripe, 

 shaded beneath with brown ; longitudinally on the head is a black stripe. At ma- 

 turity it measures one inch and a half in length by one-eighth of an inch in diameter. 

 It is very sprightly in its movements. It feeds on willow, and pupates among some 

 of the leaves drawn together by silken threads to which the pupa is attached by an 

 anal spine. Pupation of the fall brood, from fifteen to twenty days. 



