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abundant and less wild than 1 lit- I ypical rrtc<-l<i. though 

 the latter was quite common. Have taken the former 

 also in the Piedmont region of South Carolina Then- arc 

 several intergrading forms found here. 



('. <h'x)H-r<if<i (in. Very eommon towards end of season i late 

 Aug'ust). rarer in .Inly. Fasily seen and easily ea|lure<l ; 

 frequently, after clapping the bottle over one. it would 

 have to lie roused by moving the bottle against it. Kven 

 after being 1 rapped up only ordinary caution is necessan 

 for a seeond approach. 



('. ridiHtttt (in. (iinrstosa Halst . i This handsome Southern 

 giant 1 found <|iiite frequent ly this summer, though it wa*> 

 not common. Fts habits are the same as in the Southern 

 swamps; it shows a preference for grey -barked trees, is 

 not hard to see at rest, sits quietly and is not hard to 

 bottle, and when startled by rapping often lights again 

 on the other side of the same tree. The streets of 

 Columbia. S. ('., with their double and often quadruple 

 rows of aged water and willow oaks and hackberry 

 trees, are a paradise for (.'alocala*. \ stroll down these 

 shaded streets in August, with the mercury about 100 

 degrees, will reveal such a quantity of C. ri<lit/<i and 

 other nice Ctn<-<ilu\ to say nothing of the swarms of .l/xi 

 hiniN. "///.sand chiton, and noetuids innumerable, and with 

 all the conditions tor easy capture so perfect that one day 

 alone in such a place throws all other Gitoni/n collect ing 

 into the shade. Here have I taken ri<lnttt<t in such pr<> 

 fusion that the desire to capture seemed almost to pall. 

 and there would 1 direct any one wishing to know what 

 <'tn<-<tld collecting is at its best. 



('. l<ic/iri/iix>fi (in. Fairly common, in endless variety, and 

 very wild ; probably the wildest species. They often 

 ^lart up before the tree is closely approached, and a can 

 lions chase from tree to tree often ends in their ascending 

 out of reach. They seem to prefer dark-barked tree-.. 

 x<i/>i>h<> St rk. I saw and captured two this summer, in 

 September, and late in the evening : these are all 1 ha\ 

 >een here, and are smaller a trille than the only other one 

 I have seen alive taken in South Carolina. 1 !' uad no 



