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of Boston, is now extremely rare, if not extinct. I have found 

 no specimens during the past ten years. I have seen speci- 

 mens of C. generosa that were found on the seashore to the 

 south of Boston, but have never found any though often 

 searched for. I class it as a questionable inhabitant of our 

 localit)-. 



A Collecting Trip South. 



BY J. H. READING, Chicago, 111. 



We, that is my wife and I, started for Jackson, Miss., Sun- 

 day, September, 7, 1902, at 6.20, over the Illinois Central and 

 landed in 'Memphis, Term., about 8 A M., Monday. We were 

 fortunate, in accidentally going to what I afterward found to 

 be the best hotel in the South, as far as my experience went, 

 the Arlington .on the corner of Adams and Main Streets. We 

 had decided to "Jay over a day in Memphis and look around. 

 Here is where I found I had made my first mistake. I packed 

 my net in one of ourtelescopes and had it checked to Jackson, 

 so I had nothing -but 'my cyanide bottle to help me when we 

 got among the game. .After breakfast I inquired if there were 

 any parks around the -erty, and was told by the hotel clerk I 

 had better see their new cemetery "Greenwood," so out to 

 Greenwood we went. It is a fine park-like place, well kept, 

 and has many fine trees, among which I searched diligently 

 and was rewarded by the capture of two Catocala moths, one 

 relicta and one piatrix. There were quite a number of butter- 

 flies flying about, mostly Euptoieta claudia, but I could not 

 catch any of them. I caught some specimens of Lycacna, but 

 do not know just what variety they are. After dinner we took 

 another trip on the trolley cars to East End Park, and it was at 

 this place I missed my net more than ever. This park is a 

 natural woods used as a pic-nic grounds in the summer time, 

 and it seemed to be alive with a dozen or more different varie- 

 ties of butterflies. There seemed to me to be about 7,000,000 

 of them in that park, and by being foxy I succeded in catching 

 three or four specimens of turn us and trail us with my fingers as 

 they were feeding on some tall flowering weeds that were new 



