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spider's thread, like a pendulum — forth and to — as the 

 Cousin Jacks say, swinging in an arc of 6 or 8 inches. 

 In a few minutes 1 looked again and he was still 

 there, and again later, so I went out to investigate — 

 and burnt the slapjack of course — took a jar along, 

 and lo ! and be dammed ! it was H. lenzi. Next night 

 I was going up the trail to the bunkhouse about 8 

 and saw another "swinging on a thread," went for my 

 net and captured it, and another a little higher up. So 

 1 hunted for a while and took a few more but about 

 8.30 the supply gave out. Next night I started out 

 about 8 and in a few minutes began taking them, but 

 at or just before 8.30 they disappeared. I got a lan- 

 tern and followed the trail to camp, and on the higher 

 side, about a foot from the ground on oak leaves, 

 sprigs of sagebrush, grass etc., I found several couples 

 in coitu, but none flying. Sometimes there would be 

 one or two S <S camped alongside, watching the other 

 fellow. I got quite a few that year — latter end of 

 May and "Early June," but never saw one on the 

 wing before 8 p. m. or after 8.30. Another funny 

 way of doing business : the afternoon flight of 

 Pseudohazis hera. They fly in the middle of August, 

 from about 1 p. m. till 3 p. m., perhaps a little later. 

 One year, at Stockton, they were very plentiful. I 

 took a lot of their larvae — they feed on sagebrush — and 

 built a bughouse arrangement round a big sage brush 

 and pastured them out on it. They sink a little shaft 

 to pupate in. About the first to emerge was a ? and I 

 was going to bed when I noticed three males trying 

 to get inside. I was on the Graveyard shift all the 

 time, those days, running a hoist at the Honorine air 

 shaft, so slept in the middle of the day, some days. I 

 got my net and three cyanide jars and when I got back 

 to the bughouse there were two or three dozen c? d", 

 highly excited, scrambling around on the outside. I 

 got busy canning bugs, three bottles going at once, 

 did not need any net. They climbed all over me and 

 fought like Canadians. From that one ? I caught 

 82 66 in three days. As soon as two pair, the other 

 males seem to lose all interest and fly away, sour 



