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Professor Hudson adds that he has not Ijeen able to look for the 

 insect since 1893, though he believes it to be a rather regular visitor. 

 Apparently it was not abundant in that section last (Jctober. 



The flight of the cotton moth was closely followed in some local- 

 ities by the appearance of numerous specimens of the lime tree 

 winter moth, 1^^ r a n n i s t i 1 i a r i a Harr., a species mistaken by 

 some for the cotton moth. This latter form was reported by Mr 

 E. P. \'an Duzee as unusually abundant at Buffalo on October 22fl. 

 It was numerous around the electric lights of Schenectady in the 

 week of Octol:)er loth, according to Richard Lohrmann. Numerous 

 specimens were also observed about the same time in different 

 sections of Albany. The same jjhenomenon, though ])erhaps not 

 to such a markerl extent, was noted ];y Henry Bird at Rye. 



Southern captures. In connection with the record given aljove 

 relating to the large flights of the cotton moth, Alabama a r - 

 gillacea Hiibn., we deem it advisable to place on record the 

 capture by Mr Henry Bird at Rye of the following three s])ecies 

 of southern Noctuids : Autogra])ha oxygramma Geyer, 

 Anomis erosa Hiibn. and A n t i c a r s i a g e m m a t i 1 i s 

 Hiibn. Mr Bird states from observations covering a jjeriod of 

 twenty-eight years, that he has not previously noted these insects in 

 that locality. 



Periodical Cicada fTiljicen septendecim Linn.). The 

 appearance of a large Ijrood of this insect in 191 1 aroused much 

 interest, and as an indirect outcome, we received from Prof. G. A. 

 Bailey June 11, 191 2, a rejjort that he had found several nymphs 

 of this insect emerging from the ground on Major Wadsworth's 

 estate at Geneseo. Subsequently adults were forwarded and there 

 can be no question as to the identity of the insect. TVofessor 

 Bailey states that the few observed occurred within a narrow radius 

 in a piece of second growth timber. There is a record of a colony 

 of brood J 2, the one which appeared in such large numbers in the 

 Hudson valley in 191 1, in the northern part of Pennsylvania ancl 

 not so very distant from Geneseo. Should the insects nrjted above 

 belong to this brood they must be considered as stragglers, other- 

 wdse it is necessary to associate them with brood three, no colony 

 of which has been recorded nearer New York State than central- 

 western Ohio and the northern portion of West Virginia. This 

 seems to be a weak colony, since we have been unable to obtam any 

 information respecting the earlier appearance of the insect in that 

 section. 



