Official Bulletin of the Boston Entomological Club. 



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Rudolf C. B. Bartsch Editor 



46 Guernsey St., Roslindale, Mass. 



Vol. 1 



June 1, 1917 



No. 8 



Two Weeks at Rockledge, Florida 



By William Reiff and S- E. Cassino. 



The Massachusetts winter of 1916-17 with its 

 everlasting ice and snow fell, finally, on our nerves, 

 and we decided to pay a visit to the sunny South. 

 From a collector's point of view Florida looked to us 

 most promising^ so we studied our collections to as- 

 certain in which part of Florida we could expect best 

 results regarding Lepidoptera. It was no easy mat- 

 ter to come to a conclusion, for there were various 

 localities from which rare species were received, but 

 finally we concentrated ourselves upon the Indian 

 River region from where so many rare and interesting 

 species had come. With St. Augustine as the type 

 locality of Catocala nerissa and the capture of Cato- 

 cala jair from points farther south, we decided to stop 

 half way between St. Augustine and Palm Beach, and 

 we thus selected Rockledge for headquarters. 



Our collecting outfits were quickly packed, and at 

 noon on March 14 the train took us out of Boston. 

 All the way to New York was snow and ice, only the 

 Connecticut valley appeared to us a shade warmer, 

 for there were, at leasts some spots in the fields where 

 the snow already had melted. In New York we were 

 met at the station by Mr. Jacob Doll, with whom we 

 spent a few very pleasant hours- He, at that time, 

 was getting ready for a collecting trip to the Rocky 

 Mountains, and we presume that he is now busily 



