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examples of P. u-aureum and P. mortuorum were taken this year as in 

 the four years cited — or 142 as against 82. Of species contained in 

 the Hill List, and not seen at Keene valley this season, are the follow- 

 ing: Plusia Patnami Grote, P. thyatiroides Guenee, P. formosa 

 Grote, P. mappa Gr.-Rob., P. viridisignata Grote, P. epigcea Grote, 

 and P. ampla Walker. These, however, are among the rarer species, 

 and only thirteen examples are reported in the List. 



The following of the JVoctuidce were among the most common that 

 came to light, and of each from ten to thirty examples were obtained: 



Adelphagrotis prasina (Fabr.) 

 Noctua baja Fabr. 

 Noctua Normaniana (Grote) 

 Noctua bicarnea Guenee 

 Agrotis (Feltia) subgothica Steph. 

 Agrotis (Feltia) tricosa Lintn. 



Agrotis redimicula Morr. 

 Mamestra purpurissata Grote 

 Mamestra meditata Grote 

 Matnestra olivacea Morrison 

 Xylophasia dubitans (Walker) 

 Tricholita signata Walker 



In contrast with the abundance of JVoctuidce, there was almost an 

 entire absence of some other insects which in other seasons have been 

 observed in large numbers. Thus, of the attractive and conspicuous 

 family of the " hover-flies " or SyrpMdce, scarcely any were seen 

 except the small form of Sphmrophoria cylindrical, which seems 

 almost inseparably associated with the golden-rods of August. The 

 BombylidcB were much less abundant on the damp spots in roadways 

 than usual. Scarcely any of the " Dragon flies " or Odonata, were 

 seen; and indeed but few Neuroptera, except three species of Phry- 

 ganidw, which shared with the moths in attraction in the evening to 

 lighted rooms. Coleoptera were not common. In a locality — a dried 

 roadway ditch — wherein 1892 hundreds of Citindela repanda could 

 be taken by simply swinging the net from side to side as one walked 

 rapidly along, hardly any were met with. {Report of the Entomolo- 

 gist to the Regents of the University for the year 1893.) 



Sitotroga cerealella (Oliv.).* 

 The Grain-Moth. 

 (Ord. Lepidopteka : Fam. Tineid^:.) 



Additional Bibliography to that contained in the 2d Rept. Insects New York, 



1885. 



Packard: Guide Study Ins., 1869, p. 350, figs. 265, 266 (larval food); Entomol. 



for Begin., 1888, p. 151 (figure of moth and larva). 

 Ladd: in Psyche, iv, 1885, p. 337 (life-habits at Geneva, N. Y.). 



* Mr. Meyrick refers the species to Sitotroga; the other writers cited, with one or two excep- 

 tions, to Gelechia. 



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