Nov., '08] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 421 



button bush, hazel, blueberry and other trees and shrubs. There 

 is a great variety of low woody perennials on the sides of the 

 ridges. 



Most of our collecting is done on the Hartman Farm, which 

 is largely wooded. Drainage and a little care has resulted in a 

 larger timber growth and grassy sloughs. The woods are over- 

 grown with ferns. The open ridges are covered with black- 

 berries and lupine, phlox, goldenrod, milkweed of various 

 kinds and other flowering plants abound here and on the edges 

 of the sloughs. There is also a lot of flowering spurge (Eu- 

 phorbia corollata) . 



The ride from Chicago, about 23 miles, occupies an hour's 

 time, and after depositing the greater part of our luggage at 

 the Hartman home, we got after the butterflies. It was a 

 windy and more or less cloudy day. In exposed places the 

 butterflies and moths would not rise unless disturbed and would 

 then be difficult to capture, for the wind would carry them 

 away. 



One object we had in mind was to locate Lycaena scudderi 

 and if possible observe its ovipositing habits. We found the 

 butterflies, a few of them including several females, but they 

 would not lay an egg, even though we entreated them and 

 coaxed them to do so. 



A little farther on where the sloughs were somewhat pro- 

 tected by timber along the sides collecting was better. In the 

 woods there was practically nothing to be had and we spent 

 little time there. 



Toward the middle of the afternoon we were more or less 

 discouraged, for nothing particular had been taken except a 

 tattered specimen of Cirrhobolina dcducta by Mr. Beer, and 

 we were trailing back to the house when the writer caught a 

 glimpse of a small moth resting on the common field phlox 

 (Phlox pilosa}, which was in full bloom. The flower was 

 swaying wildly in the wind and the moth seemed to disappear 

 immediately. A call bi ought the others running and while 

 they stood ready to bag it with the net if necessary, the speci- 

 men was bottled without difficulty. 



