232 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Sept., '06 



prey. In a particularly dark corner, fast asleep, a handsome 

 specimen of Catocala cara was trapped. His flutterings in the 

 jar was of short duration and how our hearts beat a tattoo as 

 we made him a prisoner. The beauty of his under wings was 

 a balm for all our sufferings. A few specimens of C. innubens 

 were taken at the same rendezvous, and we moved on up the 

 valley, poking under overhanging banks and among the roots 

 of trees half undermined. 



Turning our course np the side of the hill we scrutinized the 

 bark of trees for the black-hind-winged species and took C. 

 epione and C. retecta on hickory. Other trees gave us the 

 lordly neogama. 



As the July days waned and August suns scorched the 

 droughty hill sides, other species were added to the list ; 

 palteogama, habilis and residua on hickory and hidden away 

 in the foliage of the Virginia creeper. 



Arnica was abundant on oak in early July, and Judith spar- 

 ingly on hickory, residua and lucetta scarce at all times. An 

 occasional specimen of piatrix on walnut, and the gaudy ama- 

 trix on bark of like color to his own upper wings. 



The first cara did not furnish us greater delight than the 

 first vidiia that flew at our approach across a little ravine and 

 folded his wings against the bark of a hickory sapling. His 

 capture was comparatively easy, and such a choice fellow he 

 was, " without spot or blemish." 



Mr. E. Dodge slipped away to a particularly dense wood and 

 took lachrymosa,) but the writer never caught sight of that 

 species, though he afterward tramped through its haunts again 

 and again. 



On the first day of September we were fortunate enough to 

 take two fine specimens of robinsoni on butternut and hickory. 

 These were the last of our catches as the weather was never 

 favorable after that date. 



Hidden in the cracks of the bark and the irregularities near 

 the base of one grizzled old elm, at least a dozen specimens of 

 neogama and innubens were routed out of their lurking places 

 on several different occasions. The hollows of old stumps and 

 often the loose bark of dead trees furnished many specimens of 

 innubens and its variety scintillans. 



