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  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 
  Noctuidae. 
  

  

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

   Report, 
  of 
  the 
  Butterflies 
  and 
  the 
  Sphingidse 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  

   New 
  York. 
  Similar 
  lists 
  of 
  the 
  Bombycidse 
  and 
  Noctuidse 
  

   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 
  year. 
  Mr. 
  Grote 
  has 
  published 
  several 
  lists 
  of 
  the 
  JSToc- 
  

   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. 
  ; 
  in 
  Proc. 
  Bast. 
  Soc. 
  Nat. 
  Hist., 
  Vol. 
  

   XVI, 
  pp. 
  265-376. 
  

  

  

  