532 Lepidoptera 



Order LEPIDOPTERA 



Compiled by W. T. M. Forbes 



The following list of Lepidoptera of New York is based on a tentative 

 list drawn up by the compiler in 1916. That preliminary list was prepared 

 without memoranda of collector or determiner unless there was something 

 highly unusual in the records ; and it proved impracticable later to insert 

 these in the limited time available, owing to the amount of labor which 

 would be involved in going through the various records again. The names 

 of the collectors to be credited with all or the great majority of records at 

 certain of these places are presented here : 



Albany, Lintner et al. ; Batavia, Knight ; Bath, Lintner ; Big Indian 

 Valley, Pearsall; Brockport, Bruce; Buffalo, Kellicott; Center, Lintner 

 et al. ; Clayton, Stebbins ; Debruce, Shoemaker ; Evans Center, Grote ; 

 Fentons, Hill; Florida, S. W. Frost; Honeoye Falls, Leonard; Ilion, 

 McElhose ; Karner, Lintner et al. ; Katonah, Beutenmiiller ; Lancaster, 

 E. P. Van Duzee ; Lewis County, Hill ; Liberty and New Windsor, Emily 

 Norton ; OHverea, Pearsall ; Onteora Mt., L. O. Howard ; Otto, Comstock 

 and SHngerland ; Plattsburg, Hudson ; Rensselaer and Schoharie, 

 Lintner ; Sharon, Meske ; Staten Island, Davis ; Stony Clove, Watson ; 

 Trenton Falls, Doubleday; Waddington, Woodruff; West Farms, Angus. 



Most of the specimens have been seen and determinations verified by 

 the compiler. There are incorporated, however, a considerable number 

 of local lists of very variable quality, and the compiler has had to use 

 his judgment in including or omitting records of species which have per- 

 haps been misdetermined. He hopes that no species which are really 

 members of the New York fauna have been omitted in this way, though 

 doubtless a few really correct records of stragglers from other faunas have 

 been overlooked. Additions to the preliminary list have been made largely 

 by correspondence or by collections of the Cornell University ento- 

 mologists, and the collector or the determiner has been cited in all records 

 of any particular interest. 



The dates and food plants given are gathered from a wide variety of 

 sources and not wholly from New York material. The dates given at the 

 end of the series of records for each species are intended to apply espe- 

 cially to central New York; dates for southern New York are usually 

 earlier in the spring and later in the fall, and in many cases, where definite 

 records are available, have been cited in detail. When New York dates 

 were fragmentary or lacking, dates were taken from outside the State. 



The first entomologist to make a considerable collection of the Lepidop- 

 tera of New York was Edward Doubleday, who visited for a time at 

 Trenton Falls and published an account of his visit. Augustus Radcliffe 



