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difficulty in bottling these, though I scarcely dared 1 treat he 

 as I slowly advanced tin- hoi tic. 

 C. insolabilis Gn. (^uitc common, though not hard to deled, 



and not very wild . 



(.'. olwura Strk. l\are, or at least not easy to lind : have 

 taken about five here. They prefer large trees, and sonic- 

 times hide under the loose bark, and once I took one that 

 had pitched in the grass. 



Cdfocalas were very abundant this season ; I often took lil'ly 

 to sixty good specimens in a morning or evening's tramp. As 

 usual I found the afternoon more productive than the morning. 

 On hot days I found them plentiful in the morning, hut usually 

 they "roosted" high, and began to descend towards the roots 

 in the afternoon, becoming more and more abundant towards 

 dusk. I found day collecting more profitable than sugaring, 

 and. after several attempts, gave up the latter for C<t1<H-dhix. 

 I have also found that medium si/ed oaks, with an abundant 

 growth of small branches near the ground, such a growth as 

 small white oaks frequently exhibit, were more thickly popu- 

 lated than bare trunks, and, on rapping such a tree, after 

 vainly examining it, a half-do/en or more C1<><-lx would often 

 start away. Lacln-ymofut and riditald seemed to prefer bare 

 trunks. From August 4th until September 5th this year I 

 took over 500 Calocalaft, a large proportion being C. 



THE FOURTH OF JULY. 



Collect iii (/ iii tin 1 Gcinon^s Mouth. 



BY HKXUY SKIXXKU. 



\\ c could not be said to be "seeking the bubble reputation 

 even in t he cannon's mouth, " but were after butterllies, not lo 

 speak of moths and other insects. The 1'nd of July found us 

 in the kt City of the Saints;" and, judging from the amount 

 of noise, patriotism was rampant, and the racket increased 

 every hour until the evening of the Fourth, when it gradually 

 died away like a passing thunder-storm. On the.'Jd we went to 

 lied T>utte Caiion, back of Fort Douglas, and had fair success 

 collecting, and retired that night and tried to sleep through 

 the fearful din. The morning of the Fourth was bright and 

 propitious, and we started early for the home of our good 



