THE LEPIOOPTIRIST 87 



no such word as "linis" in a specialist's collection. 



1 particularly mention this because the chief change 

 that 1 note in the entomological world, that, whereas 

 fifteen years ago lepidoptera and coleoptera attracted 

 the greatest number of students, today the lepidop- 

 terists and coleopterists are growing scarcer every year. 

 I can see no e.xplanation save in the notion that these 

 fields have been worked out ; that there are no new 

 species to discover. But this is not true. As 1 have 

 above mentioned, in thirteen years the general col- 

 lectors discovered but three new species in the Plusia 

 group, yet in two years workings as a specialist I have 

 acquired one of the two species absent from my col- 

 lection in 1902, two of the new species described in 

 the interim, three or four new species, and three or 

 four new varieties or races. 



Moral : Lepidoptera is still a fertile field for the 

 student. 



A Sugaring Trip For Catocalas 



By X. Stoivers 



At the regular meeting of the Boston Entomological 

 Club on Tuesday, August 14. a collecting trip was 

 planned, as usual in the summer months, for a week 

 from the following Saturday. As the woods in and 

 around Salem, Mass. seem to be the most productive 

 and easily accessible, we decided to go there. So those 

 of us who live in Boston met on the 5 o'clock train, 

 in the smoker, (every entomologist I know is an in- 

 veterate smoker) and immediately began to conjecture 

 as to the weather, the moon, our chances, etc. In 

 half an hour we were in Salem, where we met two 

 more of the party and then started for the collecting 

 grounds. 



As only the "Catocalists" were on this trip we 

 chose an ideal Catocala grove, of nut. wild cherry and 

 oak trees; mostly nut. I say "ideai" because the trees 

 are the right size, about ten inches in diameter, and 

 because there is no under!)rush to tangle your feet ; 

 but it is far from ideal in regard to mosquitoes, for 



