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It is probable that Cidaria albolineata should be numbered 

 among the above subarctic forms, although not so included by 

 Packard. The localities ascribed to it are all of northern or 

 high elevations, as Quebec, Brunswick, Me., and the White 

 Mountains. It has never been observed by me in this portion 

 of New York, except upon the summit of the Catskill Moun- 

 tains. 



Phasiane trifasciata of the list, -may also prove to belong 

 to the above, its only other recorded locality being Berlin 

 Falls, Me. 



Of the species cited above. Larentia ccesiata, Oporabia cam- 

 bricaria, Spargania magnoliata, Cidaria Paokardata and 

 Melanippe fluctuata have not been collected in the vicinity of 

 Albany. 



Larentia ccesiata from -this locality, is an interesting acqui- 

 sition, it having been previously reported only from high ele- 

 vations or northern regions, as the White Mountains, at an 

 elevation of between 8,000 and 9,000 feet in Colorado, Okak 

 in northern Labrador, and Caribou Island (Packard). Guenee 

 states that it has the widest distribution of any species of the 

 [Glaucopteryx, Hubner] group, occurring in the mountainous 

 regions of France, Germany, Italy, Piedmont, Scotland, north 

 of England, Iceland, etc., in barren places resting on rocks 

 and the trunks of trees. From its range of variation, differ- 

 ent species have been made of it, as infrequentata *H.&w.,jlavi- 

 cinctata Steph., etc. 



Of the Noctuitise, the following species have not been found 

 in the vicinity of Albany : 



a Agrotis Chardinyi, Hadena Hillii, 



a Agrotis conflua, a Plusia bimaculata, 



Agrotis perconflua, a Plusia u-aureum, 



Agrotis rufipectus, Plusia mortuorum, 



*Agrotis astricta, Plusia epigsea. 

 Dianthoecea lustralis, 



'At the present, we can only venture to indicate as probable 

 subarctic forms, the five species of the above marked a. Of 

 these, two are particularly interesting, from their northern and 

 extended distribution and their occurrence in the lower Adi- 

 rondack region. Agrotis Chardinyi=(A. gilvipennis (?/*.) has 

 been collected in several examples on Anticosti Island, Gulf 



