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The Placer and Mariposa Co. appear more Steve Heydon, University of California, Davis, for obtaining the golden than the worn type of albipuncta, suggesting Henry Edwards paper, and for taking the photograph of the adults; and John DeBenedicits, University of California, Davis for sugges­ that the gold scaling on the forewings is gradually lost tions which greatly improved this note. I also thank my wife, Doris causing the wings to appear olivaceous in older speci­ Brown, for companionship and help in the field. mens. All Mojave Desert specimens of ranunculi lack the yellowish spot near the apex of the dis cal cell that LITERATURE CITED is present in albipuncta. BAR NES, W. & F. H. BE NJAMI N. 1925. New and rare It is likely that albipuncta and ranunculi are differ­ from the Southwest. Pan-Pac. Entolom. IT:12- 15. COMSTOCK, J. A. & c. HENNE. 1940. Notes on early stages of Xan­ ent species. Xanthothrix ranunculi is golden yellow, is thothrix ranunculi. Bull. So. Calif. Acad. Sci. 9: 198--199. apparently restricted to the Mojave Desert, uses Core­ EDWARDS, H. 1878. Pacific Coast Lepidoptera, No. 29. Description opsis douglasii as a food plant, and lacks a forewing of some new genera and species of Noctudiae. Proc. Calif. Acad. of Sci. 29:7. spot near the apex of the dis cal cell. Xanthothrix ra­ HICKMAN, J. (ed.). 1993. The Jepsen Manual. Higher Plants of Cal­ nunculi form albipuncta has golden foreWings and ifornia. University of California Press. 1400 pp. blackish hindwings, is apparently restricted to the POOLE , R. W. 1994. Noctuoidea, Noctuidae (Part). In R. B. Do­ minick et a!. , The Moths of North America north of Mexico, lower, grassy foothills of the Sierra Nevada, uses Core­ fasc . 26.1:113-114. opsis stillmanii as a food plant, and has a light yellow PRIESTAF, R. C. & J. F. EMMEL. 1998. An extraordinary new sub­ forewing spot near the apex of the discal cell. species of Philotiella speciosa (LEPIDOPTERA: LY­ CAENIDAE) from Coastal Santa Barbara County, California. Philotiella speciosa and its subspecies bohartorum (Ly­ Pg. 283- 284 In T. C. Emmel (ed. ), Systematics of Western caenidae), which also may be a separate:species, dis­ North Am erican Butterflies. Mariposa Press. 878 pp. playa similar disjunct distribution. Plants were identified using Hickman (1993). WILLIAM D. PATTERSON, 2624 4th Avenue Sacra­

J thank Alvin Ludtke, North Highlands, California, for assis­ mento, California 95818, USA tance ill the fi eld, for rearing efforts, for the photograph of the larva, and for many discussions about these moths; Tim McCabe, Receivedforpublication 19 Janl1ary 2001 ; revised and accepted 3 New York State Museum, for advice on the identity of the moths; December 2001

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ADDENDUM TO THE OF LOUISIANA Additional key words: bait traps, hawkmoths, light traps, Louisiana, sphinx moths.

The Sphingidae of Louisiana were reported by Brou representing 36 species (Table 1). Fermenting bait and Brou (1997) in a 26-year study treating abun­ traps were operated only in 1996-1997, while ultravio­ dance, distribution, and flight periods. We listed 55 let light traps were operated all four years. These addi­ species of Sphingidae recorded for Louisiana and 46 tional records represent 30 consecutive years of Sphin­ species documented by our study. The quantity of gidae records for the state of Louisiana, totaling 83,889 adult sphingidae captured from 1970 to 1995 for the captured adults. state of Louisiana totaled 71,836 specimens. This brief Total trap hours expended during the 30 year inves­ article is intended to add to and finalize our previous tigation were in excess of 1.4 million hours, involving investigations. No newly recorded species were en­ 491,000 ultraviolet light trap hours and 913,000 fer­ countered during these fOllr years, nor were species menting bait trap hours. Specimens retained during newly encountered in bait traps versus light traps than this addendum period are depOSited in Florida State were previously reported. This addendum, represent­ Collection of (Gainesville) and Louisiana ing four years (1996-1999) yielded 12,053 specimens State University (Baton Rouge). VOLUME 56, NUMBER 3 179

TABLE l. List of species and number of individuals collected be­ LITERATURE CITED tween 1996 and 1999. BROV, VERNON A. & c. D. BROV. 1997. Distribution and phenolo­ gies of Louisiana Sphingidae. J. Lepid. Soc. .51:1.56--17.5. Species Number of adults

l. Agrius cingulata (F.) 9.5 VERNON A. BROU JR. AND CHARLOTTE D. BROU , 2. Manduca sexta (L.) 36 74320 Jack Loyd Road, Abita Springs, Louisiana .3. M. qUinquemaculata (Haw.) 4 4. M. rustica (F.) 44 70420 USA Email: [email protected] .5. M. jasminearum (Cuer.) 16 fi. Dolha hyloeus (Drllly) 429 Received for p"blication 1.5 OctoiJer 2001; revised and accepted 7. Ceratomia amyntor (Geyer) 4 26 February 2002. 8. C. undulosa (Wlk. ) 284 9. C. catalpae (Bdv.) 6 10. C. hageni (Grt.) o l.l. Isoparce cupressi (Bdv.) 93 12. Paratrea plebeja (F.) 69 ]3. Sphinxeremitus (Hbn. ) o 14. S. leucophaeta Clem. o 1.5. S. chersis (Hbn.) o lfi. S. franckii Neum. 1 l7. S. kalmiae J. E.Smith 33 18. 8. drupiferarum J. E.Smith o 19. Lapara conifemrurn (J. E.Smith) 24.52 20. L. phaeobrachycerous Brou l498 21. Srnerinthusjamaicensis (Drury) 4 22. Paonias excaecatus (I. E.Smith) 218 23. P myops (J. E.Smith) 804 24. P astylus (Drury) 16 2.5. Laothoe juglandis (}. E.Smith) 4.5 2fi. Pachysphinx modesta (Harr.) o 27. Pseudosphinx tetrio (L.) o 28. Erynnis alope (Drury) o 29. E. lassauxi (Edv.) o 30. E. ello (L.) 31. E. obscura (F.) 2 32. E. dorningonis (Btl. ) o 33. Pachylia ficus (L.) o 34. Aellopos titan (Cram.) o 3.5. Afadus (Gram.) o :36. Enyo lugubris (L.) 177 37 Hemans thysbe (F.) 31 38. Ii. diffinis (Bdv.) o 39. Eurnorpha satellitalicaon (Cram.) o 40. E. pandorus (Hbn.) 27 41. E. interrnedia (E. PClark) :3 42. E. achenwn (Drury) 20 43. E. (L.) o 44. E. fasciatus (Sulz. ) 71 4.5. E. lubruscae (L.) o 4fi. abbottii (Swainson) 362 47 Deidarnia inscnpta (Harr.) 62.5 48. Arnphion flondensis B. PClark 724 49. Proserpinus gaume (J. E.Srnith) o 50. Darapsa versicolor (Har!'.) 2 .51. D. myron (Cram.) 2271 .52. D. pholl1S (Cram. ) 1344 .53. Xylophanes pll1to (F.) o .54. X. tersa (L.) 182 .5.5. Hyles lineata (F.) 60 Total records 12,0.53