Lepidoptera 533 



Grote was the first entomologist living in the State (at Evans Center) 

 who worked especially on the Lepidoptera for a period of years. The 

 collections of both these men are now in the British Museum. Double- 

 day's records were mainly published by Walker, while Grote pubHshed 

 many records himself, besides those which were incorporated in Van 

 Duzee's list of the Lepidoptera of the vicinity of Buffalo. In those 

 families for which the British Museum material has been recently worked 

 over in Hampson's Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae, the records 

 have been taken from this rather than from the earlier publications. 



Manuscript of the list has been submitted to most of the lepidopterists 

 of the State. There have thus been obtained many additional records from 

 Mr. Davis in the entire order, from Messrs. Watson, Angle, and Bell in 

 the butterflies, and from Mr. Wild in all groups but especially in the 

 Microlepidoptera. Mr. Engelhardt has gone over the whole list, and has 

 made numerous additions and corrections, but especially in the ^geriidae, 

 and Mr. Bird has similarly concentrated on the P'apaipema group. We 

 are particularly indebted to Mr. Angle for allowing us to incorporate a 

 manuscript list of the Rhopalocera of the State, with many records. 



The arrangement of families follows the synopsis in Memoir 68 of 

 the Cornell University Agricultural Experim.ent Station, pages 34 to 44. 

 For the species also that memoir is followed, with some corrections, 

 as far as it goes — ^that is, through the Drepanidae. Beyond this point the 

 order within each family is approximately that of Barnes and McDun- 

 nough's check list, sometimes reversed in order to start each family with 

 the recognized primitive forms. The numbers attached are those of 

 Barnes and McDunnough's list, more recently recognized segregates being 

 designated by decimal numbers, and other recently described species by a 

 dash in the number column. 



County records are cited only when no more specific records from the 

 county are at hand, save in the case of a few records from economic 



sources, where the citation is " Co, generally." In such cases the 



species is believed to occur wherever the food plant is commercially 

 grown in the county. Local lists are treated similarly where detailed 

 localities are not given in them, except in the case of Staten Island, which 

 is generally taken as a unit. 



In all, 2439 named forms are recognized as more or less authentically 

 reported from the State, besides a few very doubtful ones passed over in 

 footnotes. Of these, 169 are treated as varieties and 2270 as apparently 

 valid species. There are also 11 undescribed Microlepidoptera of more 

 than usual interest, mentioned in the list. 



