Ninth Report of the State Entomologist 459 



Mr. Otto Meske's Collection of Lepidoptera. (Albany Evening 

 Times, for October 27, 1874. Transactions of the Albany- 

 Institute, 1876, viii, pp. 215-220.) 



Commended for its arrangement and preparation and perfection of its 

 specimens : how the field collections were made : the labor devoted to its 

 arrangement : Mr. Meske's devotion to the study : the rare Sphingidae of the 

 collection and full New York representation : abundance of Catocalas in 

 North America : to insure thoroughness in entomology specialists are required. 



Description of a New Species of Calocampa. (Bulletin of the 



Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, ii, October, 1874, pp. 



188, 189.) 



Calocampa nupera, from localities in New York, hitherto regarded as 

 identical with C. vetusta of Europe, is described as a new species. 



