62S NOCTUIDAE 



[2693 p. nelita Strk. Should be found in the State (Bird). Rudbeckia lachiiata 

 (Bird).] 



2694 P. sciata Bird. Buffalo and Sullivan Co (Bird); Rye (type); Sep 15 -Oct 



17 (Bird). Veronica virginica. 



2695 P. frigida Sm. (thalictri Lvman). Buffalo (Bird); Rye; Westchester Co; 



Sullivan Co (Bird) ; LI. Sep 10-30 (Bird). Thalictrum. 



2696 P. cerussata G. & R. Buffalo; Rye; SI; LI: Woodhaven. Sep 12-30 



(Bird). Vernonia noveboracensis. 



2698 P. nebris On, and var. nitela On. Common Stalk-Borer. Buffalo; E. 



Aurora (Wild); Lancaster; Schenectady; Albany; Middletown; Rye; 

 Monsey; SI; LI: Central Pk. and Wading R. (Ds). Sep 15-Oct 4 

 (Bird). Preferred food-plants of the subfamily Ambrosiaceae (Bird). 



2699 P. duplicata Bird. Rye (type); SI; LI: Jamaica. Sep 28-Oct 18 (Bird). 



Collinsonia canadensis is the only known food-plant (Bird). 



2700 P. necopina Grt. (impertubata Bird). Lancaster, Buffalo, E. Aurora, and 



Allegany Pk. (Wild) ; Westchester Co and LI references almost surely 

 belong to maritima (Bird). Aug 24-Sep 20. Helianthus divaricatus 

 (Bird). 



2701 P. maritima Bird. Lancaster; Ithaca; Rye (type) ; southern Westchester Co 



(Bird) ; SI (Ds). Sep 15-Oct 10 (Bird). Helianthus giganteus 

 (Bird). 

 2703 P. eupatorii Lyman. Buffalo, Rye, and Sullivan Co (Bird). Sep 10-21 

 (Bird). Eupatorium purpureum (Bird). 



Pyrrhia Hiibner 



P. umbra Hbn. Lancaster, E. Aurora, and Buffalo (Wild) ; Rock City; 

 Ithaca; Karner; Poughkeepsie ; SI, Aug (Ds) ; LI: Newtown; Aque- 

 duct. Ononis, Geranium, Alnus, and cultivated Rhododendron (Wild). 



P. exprimens Wlk. Fentons ; Clayton ; Rochester ; Buffalo ; Ithaca ; Schenec- 

 tady; Albany; Rye (Bird); SI, Jl (Ds). The suffused var. angulata 

 Grt. was described from Buffalo, and has been taken also at Utica 

 (CU). 



Rhodoecia Hampson 



R. aurantiago illiterata Grt. Poughkeepsie; Rye (Bird); SI; LI: River- 

 head (Ds). Jl-early Aug. Seeds of Afselia macrophylla (Braun). 



GORTYNA Ochsenheimer 



G. immanis Gn. Hop Borer. Plattsburg; Ithaca; Waterville; Sangerfield; 

 Oneonta; New Windsor; Rye (Bird); LI: Yaphank (Ds). Aug 20- 

 Sep 12 (Bird). Works at the crown of Humulus Lupulus, but does 

 not actually mine the stem; also at root of Silphium, in 111. (Bird). 



G. stramentosa Gn. Ithaca, Sep (Fbs) ; Rye (Bird) ; Sullivan Co (Bird) ; 

 LI: Glendale, Kch. Aug 20-30 (Bird). Root of Scrophularia 

 leporella (Bird). 



Xanthoecia Llampson 

 (Ochria auct.) 

 X. buffaloensis Grt. (latia Strk.). Buffalo, Sep 20 (Bird). Saururus cernuus. 



