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Argynnis Atlantis Bdw. Pyrameis Atalanta {Linn.). 



A. Myrina (Gravxer). Limenitis Arthemis (Drury). 



A. Bellona i^a57-. L. disippus ((rOcZi,). 



Phyciodes Tharos {Di^ury). Satyrus Alope (Fabr.). 



Grapta Faunus iJdio. — very common. Feniseca Tarqiiinius (Fabr.). 



G. comma (Harr.) form Dryas. Chrysophanus hypophleas Bel. 



Grapta Progne {Cramer). Lycfena Comyntas {Godt.). 



G. J", album {Bel. -Leo.). Pamphilus Peckius {Kirby). 



Vanessa Antiopa {Linn.). P. Metacomet {Harris). 



v. Milbertii Goclt. Total, 27 species. 



Thecla stkigosa Harris. — A larva of this beautiful butterfly was 

 received on June eig-htb, from E. Moody & Sons, of the Niagara 

 Nurseries at Lockport, N. T., which had burrowed into a cultivated 

 plum and eaten out its interior after the manner of Thecla Henrici, in 

 the wild plum, as described by Mr. W. H. Edwards, in Papilio, i, p. 

 151-2. It was seen to differ from that species, as it was of an uniform 

 green color, and lacked the tuberculous dorsal ridges characterizing 

 that form. At the request of Mr. S. H. Scudder, it was sent to him 

 for figuring. Not reaching its destination in a healthful state, it was 

 preserved by inflation, after it had been compared with two other 

 examples in the possession of Mr. Scudder, which were feeding on the 

 leaves of shad-bush (Amelanchier) and blueberry (Vaccinium), and 

 found to agree with them " to the uttermost microscopic detail." 

 Subsequently these examples gave Thecla strigosa Harris. 



The note of "the larva of Thecla Ir us Grodt., burrowing in a plum," 

 which appears in the Report of the State.Entomologist to the Regents 

 of the University S. N. Y. for the year 1886, in the Fortieth Report of 

 the N. Y. State Museum of Natural History, page 140, refers to the 

 example above noticed, and should have been so recorded : hence the 

 above particulars. 



* NisomADEs Pebsitjs Scudder. — -Four examples of this very common 

 Hesperian butterfly in the State of New York (two males and two 

 females) were identified by me among the collections made by Dr. H. 

 A. Hagen in the Northern Trans-Continental Survey in 1880, at 

 Yakami river, La Chappies, July 16; Yakami city, July 2, and [label 

 not legible] July 11th. 



* Sphinx Canadensis Boisd. — An example of this rare Sphinx (the 

 S. plota of Strecker) was captured at light, on a window, at Tanners- 

 ville, Catskill mountains, N. Y., on August 13th, and is now in the 

 collection of Mr. W. W. Hill, of Albany. 



*The notes thus marked on this page and following ones, are from the preceding 

 report to the Eegents (for 1885) of which no copies have been printed except the regular 

 edition of the Annual Eeport on the N. Y. State Museum of Natural History. 

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