72 THE LEPIDOPTERIST 



Two Weeks at Rockledge, Florida 



By William Reiff and Samuel E. Cassino 



{Continued from June) 

 It was past ten o'clock when the train was 

 Hearing Rockledge, Florida, and we two "bug- 

 hunters" were the only passengers to stop off. An 

 automobile brought us over a partly rough and partly 

 sandy road to the hotel, but we really did not notice 

 the condition of the road very much, for our senses 

 were taken by the extremely sweet odor from the 

 orange blossoms with which the air was filled. In 

 spite of the late hour (for the average human being), 

 we did not feel like going to bed, for we had passed 

 a store with three strong electric lights, and our 

 conscience would have troubled us all night, if we 

 neglected to visit these lights. Of course we 

 did not expect to find the moths at this late hour in 

 big swarms ; we mainly wanted to satisfy our curios- 

 ity- The first insects we noticed were Coleoptera 

 mainly small Carabidce and small Lachnostema. All 

 these were found on the cement walk and were 

 crawling and running about to escape the attacks of 

 a little yellowish-red ant which were present in many 

 hundreds of specimens. Lifting our eyes up to the 

 walls, windows, etc., we really were astonished to 

 see everything covered with Microlepidoptera of 

 which the Pyralidce represented by far the largest 

 percentage. We never had seen before such an 

 abundance of these moths wherever we have done 

 collecting. We could find only a few Macrolepidop- 

 tera; most of them must have flown away before 

 our arrival, for the store keeper assured us that the 

 "bugs had been swarming by the million" that even- 

 ing. 



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