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length so indifferent to other surroundings that I had little difficulty in 

 giving him a sound rap over the head with a hickory switch, which sent 

 him some ten feet away, and though he scrambled hastily up a neigh- 

 boring tree, I found him on my next round, a few minutes afterward, 

 demurely licking my sugar again as though nothing had happened. 



Notwithstanding the season just closed has been somewhat noticeable 

 for the scarcity of Lepidoptera, a fact doubtless to a great extent due to 

 the severity of the previous winter, the subjoined table will show that the 

 material collectible at sugar is at least reasonably abundant. It will be 

 seen that for the four weeks beginning on Aug. 17th, I was at my post 

 five nights each week. Subsequent to that period other duties prevented 

 my continuing the work regularly. It should be observed also that 

 whereas I made a somewhat exhaustive examination of the trees from 

 Aug. 17th to Sept. nth inclusive, I after that time made no memorandum 

 of the more common species which still continued to throng for their 

 accustomed food. In connection with a few of the species enumerated 

 no dates are designated, as my memoranda failed to indicate the precise 

 time of their capture. Earlier in the season (June) I had taken at sugar 

 Thy reus Abbottii, Anisopteryx vernata, Catocala fratercula, C. ilia, etc., 

 etc., which, except the last named, did not occur after Sept. 17th. Where 

 but a single date of capture appears, usually but a single specimen was 

 taken. Of Pachypolia airicomis, however, several fresh specimens were 

 taken Oct. 6th, and one or two on a subsequent date, indicating for this 

 species a very late apparition. Of Scoliopteryx libatrix, also, several 

 specimens were taken, and, though not taken, it was observed a night or 

 two previous to Sept. 10th. 

 Agrotis Normaniana Gr., August 18, 24, 26, 27, 28, 31 ; September 2, 3, 



4, 7, 8 , 9, IO > "■ 

 " baja S. V., August 18, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31 ; September 1, 



2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9> IO > "• 

 badinodis Gr., September 10, 15. 



c-nigrum Linn., August 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31 ; 

 September 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, n. 

 " bicarnea Guen., August iS, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31 ; September 1, 



2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. 

 " herilis Gr., August 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31 ; September 1. 

 " tricosa Lintn., August 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31. 

 " subgothica Haw., August 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31 ; 

 September 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, n. 





