Incidental Captures of Lepidoptera at Plano, Texas

IN connection with my study ofthe green bug at Plano, Collin county, Texas, from the first week of May to the end of December, 1907, a considerable number of insects in all of the principal orders were personally collected, and the results obtained from the identifications of the Let)idot)tera thus taken are herewith presented. Only a few butterflies were captured, since opportunities for collecting Lepidoptera especially were limited mostly to night work, which, however, proved to be an enjoyable diversion. At such times, the light of one or two ordinary lanterns shining against the breeding tent was employed with good success in the atlraction of nocturnal flyers, and on this account, the records of night collecting predominate in my list. The locality in which the collecting was done is fairly typical of the blackbelt prairie lands of northern Texas, where much of the country is under cultivation. Most of the specimens were determined at the U. S. entomological laboratory in Dallas, Texas, with the assistance of Mr. F. C. Pratt, and acknowledgments are also due Dr. H. G. Dyar and Mr. A. Busck of Washington, D. C., through the courtesy of Dr. L. O. Howard, for valuable aid. For a few other determinations, credit is given in the particular cases to Dr. W. G. Dietz and Mr. W. D. Kearfott. Dr. Dyar’s catalogue has been followed as a guide for the nomenclature and arrangement of my list. Permission to publish this list has been kindly granted by Prof. C. E. Sanborn, who, during the time of collection, directed my experimental work.