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(b) P. c. ridens Masters, Eastern Bolivia
(c) P. c. brasiliensis Rothschild & Jordan, Brazil and southward.
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Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 33(2), 1979, 136
MELIPOTIS INDOMITA (NOCTUIDAE) IN HAWAII AND CONNECTICUT
Recently while curating material of Melipotis indomita (Walker) at the Peabody Museum, Yale University, I encountered two specimens from unusual localities which seemed to merit a brief note. The data are as follows:
HAWAII: Oahu, Honolulu Co., Honolulu, 28 May 1974 leg. Joseph G. Gall, a fresh male.
CONNECTICUT: Litchfield Co., Washington, at home lights, 31 July 1958, leg. Sidney A. Hessel, a worn female.
Forbes (1954, Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States, Part 3, Cornell Agric. Exp. Sta. Mem. 329) gives the distribution as, "Southern states; reported northward at Kittery Point, Maine, Long Island, St. Louis, Missouri (not rare) and Delaware." Most Peabody Museum specimens are from Arizona.
The Connecticut record is remarkable since the specimen was taken in the Litchfield hills, about 47 km from the coast. It probably arrived there by natural dispersal. The species probably has been accidentally introduced to Hawaii by human transport. No species of Melipotis Hiibner or the closely related Drasteria Hiibner (sensu Forbes, 1954) is reported from the Hawaiian Islands by Zimmerman (1958, Insects of Hawaii, vol. 7, Univ. of Hawaii Press, Honolulu).
Dale F. Schweitzer, Curatorial Associate, Entomology, Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520.