Samuel E. Cassino, 



Salem, Massachusetts. 



\^0[,. II 



April 25, 1918 



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Publisher. 



No. 4 



Notes on Collecting, Preparing and Preserva- 

 tion Of Lepidoptera 



j^v Rudolf C. B. Bartsch, Roslindale, Mass. 



In Vol. II, No. 1 page 4 there appeard an article 

 "Hints for Amateurs" by Nathaniel Stowers which 

 contains nothing but rambling suggestions. Ihis is 

 to be expected from a collector as young and inex- 

 perienced as Mr. Stowers. "Hints" if they are to 

 be of any value must contain information definite 

 enough to really make it possible for a collector 

 to i'lnd any certain species or group of species. The 

 suggestion that when walking through a grove you 

 should look carefully over the trees for Catocalas is so 

 vague that is has no value. It makes considerable 

 dilference whether your grove is com])osed of 

 evergreens, or oaks, willows, hickories and poplars. 

 \o\\v chances in the grove of evergreens wotild be 

 extremely small but among the other trees your 

 chances would be excellent, if the season is right. 

 .\ collector in the latitude of the New England states 

 would have no luck until late June or early July, 

 while on the other hand collectors in the. southern 

 -states are all through looking for Catocalas by early 

 June. 



Certain groups of the Noctuidre can be taken at 

 '"Sugar" but not at all .seasons and seldom casil}-, 



Coprrielit. \i\y„ liv Stmiiel F. Camino. All r (fht» reierTert 



