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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  when 
  in 
  former 
  years 
  hundreds 
  could 
  have 
  been 
  captured. 
  The 
  Argynnids 
  

   were 
  very 
  few 
  and 
  mainly 
  Atlantis. 
  Feniseca 
  Tarquinius, 
  for 
  which 
  

   Keene 
  valley 
  is 
  a 
  noted 
  locality, 
  was 
  not 
  seen. 
  Colias 
  Philodice 
  was 
  

   comparatively 
  rare, 
  while 
  Fieris 
  rapce 
  was 
  abundant 
  in 
  the 
  fields 
  and 
  

   about 
  the 
  blossoms 
  of 
  the 
  burdock. 
  The 
  presence 
  and 
  capture 
  of 
  sev- 
  

   eral 
  examples 
  oi 
  Fieris 
  oleracea 
  was 
  welcomed 
  as 
  evidence 
  that 
  our 
  once 
  

   familiar 
  native 
  species 
  had 
  not 
  been 
  entirely 
  driven 
  away 
  by 
  the 
  hosts 
  of 
  

   the 
  foreign 
  invader. 
  In 
  part 
  compensation 
  for 
  the 
  absence 
  of 
  so 
  many 
  

   of 
  our 
  diurnals, 
  the 
  beautiful 
  "red 
  admiral," 
  j^r^/^zm 
  Aialanta, 
  was 
  un- 
  

   commonly 
  abundant 
  in 
  the 
  last 
  week 
  of 
  July 
  and 
  in 
  early 
  August. 
  

  

  The 
  night-flying 
  species 
  — 
  the 
  moths— 
  were 
  also 
  very 
  few, 
  and 
  it 
  was 
  

   only 
  possible 
  to 
  secure 
  a 
  few 
  of 
  the 
  attractive 
  Plusias 
  that 
  abound 
  at 
  

   these 
  high 
  elevations; 
  but 
  among 
  them 
  were 
  several 
  examples 
  of 
  the 
  

   resplendent 
  Flusia 
  balluca 
  Geyer. 
  

  

  In 
  each 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  orders 
  was 
  there 
  an 
  equally 
  poor 
  representation 
  

   of 
  the 
  species 
  commonly 
  met 
  with 
  — 
  quite 
  noticeable 
  in 
  the 
  families 
  of 
  the 
  

   Cicindelids, 
  Coccinellids, 
  Cerambycids, 
  in 
  the 
  BombylidcB 
  and 
  Syrphidce^ 
  

   in 
  the 
  dragon 
  flies, 
  and 
  many 
  others. 
  

  

  What 
  particular 
  climatic 
  conditions 
  had 
  resulted 
  in 
  so 
  marked 
  a 
  

   reduction 
  in 
  the 
  usual 
  abundance 
  of 
  insect 
  life 
  is 
  beyond 
  our 
  knowledge. 
  

   It 
  would 
  be 
  iuteresting 
  to 
  know 
  if 
  any 
  other 
  class 
  of 
  the 
  animal 
  kingdom 
  

   was 
  similary 
  affected, 
  and 
  if 
  it 
  also 
  extended 
  to 
  the 
  flora. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  are 
  brief 
  notices 
  of 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  insect 
  attacks 
  that 
  have 
  

   come 
  under 
  observation 
  : 
  

  

  Tenthredo 
  rufopectus 
  (Norton). 
  

  

  An 
  example 
  of 
  this 
  saw-fly 
  was 
  received 
  May 
  25, 
  from 
  Mr. 
  Thomas 
  

   Tupper, 
  of 
  Corning, 
  N. 
  Y. 
  It 
  operates 
  in 
  the 
  stems, 
  after 
  the 
  manner 
  

   of, 
  and 
  often 
  in 
  association 
  with, 
  the 
  current-stem 
  girdler, 
  Janus 
  

   integer 
  (Norton). 
  It 
  had 
  been 
  common 
  in 
  his 
  garden 
  for 
  many 
  years 
  

   past, 
  but 
  by 
  cutting 
  off 
  and 
  destroying 
  each 
  wilted 
  tip 
  last 
  year 
  as 
  soon 
  

   as 
  seen, 
  he 
  had 
  nearly 
  checked 
  its 
  operations. 
  

  

  The 
  insect 
  appears 
  to 
  have 
  an 
  extended 
  distribution. 
  Norton 
  gives 
  it 
  

   from 
  New 
  England, 
  New 
  York, 
  Pennsylvania, 
  and 
  Illinois. 
  Cresson, 
  

   later, 
  gives 
  United 
  States 
  and 
  Canada. 
  It 
  has 
  been 
  taken 
  in 
  a 
  number 
  

   of 
  examples 
  in 
  Canada 
  — 
  at 
  Ottawa 
  and 
  vicinity, 
  between 
  June 
  5th 
  and 
  

   July 
  ist. 
  In 
  my 
  collections 
  made 
  at 
  Schoharie, 
  N. 
  Y., 
  it 
  occurred 
  as 
  

   late 
  as 
  July 
  i8th. 
  

  

  