﻿Report 
  of 
  tre 
  State 
  Entomologist, 
  179 
  

  

  Additions 
  to 
  the 
  State 
  Collection. 
  

  

  The 
  aggregate 
  of 
  the 
  additions 
  to 
  the 
  State 
  collection 
  through 
  

   the 
  Entomologist 
  from 
  January 
  to 
  August 
  inclusive, 
  as 
  already- 
  

   reported 
  to 
  your 
  board, 
  is 
  1775 
  specimens, 
  which, 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  

   exceptions, 
  have 
  been 
  ticketed 
  with 
  locality 
  and 
  date 
  of 
  collection. 
  

   Of 
  these, 
  1399 
  have 
  been 
  mounted 
  and 
  388 
  have 
  been 
  labeled 
  

   with 
  their 
  scientific 
  name. 
  

  

  Contributions 
  to 
  the 
  collection 
  have 
  been 
  made, 
  during 
  the 
  

   same 
  time, 
  by 
  52 
  contribntors, 
  consisting 
  of 
  about 
  160 
  examples. 
  

  

  Collections 
  Made 
  in 
  the 
  Adirondack 
  Mountains. 
  

   The 
  additions 
  made 
  to 
  the 
  State 
  collection 
  have 
  been 
  mainly, 
  

   as 
  in 
  preceding 
  years, 
  in 
  the 
  Adirondack 
  region 
  of 
  the 
  State. 
  

   The 
  collections 
  made 
  in 
  Keene 
  valley, 
  Essex 
  county, 
  this 
  season, 
  

   during 
  portions 
  of 
  the 
  months 
  of 
  July 
  and 
  August, 
  were 
  larger 
  

   than 
  usual. 
  Lepidoptera 
  attracted 
  to 
  light 
  were 
  unusually 
  

   abundant. 
  Over 
  six 
  hundred 
  examples, 
  mostly 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  

   Noctuidaz, 
  were 
  taken 
  by 
  this 
  means. 
  Two 
  species 
  of 
  Plusia 
  — 
  

   a 
  genus 
  containing 
  perhaps 
  the 
  most 
  beautiful 
  of 
  our 
  ^"octuids 
  — 
  

   P. 
  u-aureum 
  and 
  P. 
  mortuorum, 
  which 
  in 
  former 
  years 
  have 
  

   been 
  comparatively 
  rare 
  in 
  the 
  Adirondacks, 
  although 
  belonging 
  

   to 
  high 
  altitudes, 
  were 
  this 
  year 
  really 
  common 
  — 
  more 
  common, 
  

   indeed, 
  than 
  any 
  other 
  species. 
  The 
  first 
  Plusia 
  purpurigera 
  

   ever 
  taken 
  by 
  me 
  was 
  captured 
  on 
  August 
  6th. 
  As 
  the 
  Plusias 
  

   have 
  place 
  among 
  the 
  rarer 
  of 
  our 
  Noctuidas, 
  and 
  are 
  always 
  

   regarded 
  as 
  desirable 
  additions 
  to 
  collections, 
  the 
  several 
  species 
  

   taken 
  at 
  Keen-3 
  valley 
  this 
  season, 
  with 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  each, 
  is 
  

   herewith 
  given: 
  

  

  Plusia 
  (Deva) 
  purpurigera 
  Walker, 
  1 
  

   P. 
  aerea 
  Hiibner, 
  1 
  

  

  Plusia 
  precationis 
  Guenee, 
  10 
  

   P. 
  u-aureum 
  Grote, 
  84 
  

   P. 
  mortuorum 
  Guenee, 
  58 
  

   P. 
  simplex 
  Guenee, 
  8 
  

  

  P. 
  eeroides 
  Grote, 
  9 
  

  

  P. 
  balluca 
  Geyer, 
  8 
  

   P. 
  bimaculata 
  Stephens, 
  4 
  

  

  The 
  total 
  number 
  of 
  Plusias 
  — 
  all 
  taken 
  within 
  doors 
  — 
  was 
  183, 
  

   not 
  including 
  many 
  worn 
  and 
  rejected 
  examples 
  appearing 
  in 
  

   August.. 
  

  

  Comparing 
  the 
  above 
  with 
  the 
  collections 
  reported 
  by 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  

   W. 
  Hill, 
  in 
  the 
  western 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  Adirondacks 
  (Lewis 
  

   county) 
  during 
  the 
  four 
  years, 
  1875-1879.* 
  we 
  find 
  that 
  nearly 
  

  

  ♦In 
  Seventh 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  Survey 
  of 
  the 
  Adirondack 
  Region 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  18S0, 
  p. 
  387. 
  

  

  