450 Forty- SIXTH Report on the State Museum 



20th; giving also comparative abundance, number of broods, dates when 

 observed, habits, observations on their larvae, etc. 



Dates of Collection of Xew York Heterocera. (Entomological 

 Contributions, 1872, pp. 56-65. Twenty-third Eeport on the 

 N. Y. State Cabinet of ISTatural Histor}^, 18Y3, pp. 188-197.) 



Contains dates of collection of ninety-four species during the year 1869, 

 Tinder their respective families, and of two hundred species in years prior to 

 1869. Also notes on the following species: Darapsa Myron, Trochiliiim 

 (Bemhecia) marginatum, Lycomorpha pliolus, Orgyia leucostigma, Eudryas 

 unio, Ichthyura inclusa, Hyperchiria lo, Anisota senatoria, Nadata gibbosa 

 Platycenira furcilla, Xyleutes [Cossas] robinice, Gonopteryx libatrix, Cleora 

 pidchraria, and Zerene catenaria. 



List of North American Lepidoptera Contained in " Species Gen- 

 eral des Lepidopteres," by A. Guenee. (Entomological Con- 

 tributions, 1872, pp. 66-80. Twenty-third Report on the IST. Y. 

 State Cabinet of Natural History, 1873, pp. 198-212.) 



Embraces above six hundred species described in the six volumes of the 

 above-named work, with reference to volume and page; particular habitat 

 when given, and also designation of the species credited to, or known by the 

 compiler to occur in, the State of New York, of which there are two hundred 

 and fifty-three species. 



Kotes on Cucullia intermedia Speyer. (Entomological Contribu- 

 .tions, 1872, pp. 81-84, figs. 5, 6, 7 of pi. S. Twenty-third 

 E-eport on the N. Y. State Cabinet of Natural History, 1873, 

 pp. 213-216, figs, as above.) 



The larva is described, its probable food-plants named; its earthen cocoon 

 and how constructed, and its pupa; the two annual broods; how the imago 

 feeds. Note on the larva of Cucidlia convexipennis and its cocoon. Remarks 

 on a translation of a paper by Dr. A. Speyer " On Cucullia intermedia and 

 C. lucifuga" given in the following pages (85-90); and on the valuable studies 

 made by him of our American Noctuidse. Mr. Meeke's field collections, and 

 the cyanide bottle. 



On the Larva and Imago of Sesia diffinis Harris. (Twenty- 

 fourth Annual Report on the N. Y. State Museum of Natural 

 History, for the year 1870 : 1872, pp. 109-111. Entomological 

 Contributions — No. II, 1872, pp. 5-7.) 



The larva, taken from bush-honeysuckle, Diervilla trifida, is described: 

 remarks on the "annulets" (usually eight) in which the segments of the 

 Sphingidce are divided: flight and other habits of the imago in the breeding 



