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When a collection is made, the first thing to do is to write up the 
accessions catalogue. To do this, write the date in the left-hand col- 
umn in figures, the month first, as 6-12, the year being written only 
once—at the top of each page. In the second column write the 
locality just as it appears on the label, and in the third column the spe- 
cial locality where these insects were taken. In the next column 
write the name or simply the initials of the collector. Then for the 
rest of the width of the page any notes of value on anything taken, 
as in any other system. I usually here outline the exact trip taken, 
the stops made, the particular plants collected from, etc., noting as I 
go along any facts that will add to existing knowledge. In this way 
if there is anything to record it is written out, and if there is nothing 
special to note or only facts that have been noted many times before, 
the simple date and trip note will be sufficient. Oftentimes in this way 
when the life history or food plant of a species has been made out, a 
great deal of additional information or confirmation can be gained 
from these short notes; while any deductions made at that time would 
probably have been erroneous. A sample form follows: 
1901. 
6-12 | Fort Collins. .| R.R.south----.--- E. D. B.| Nysius minutus found abdt. in strawberry bed 
sucking the juice from the berries as fast as 
they ripen. They were clustered on a tum- 
ble weed (Monolepis), which appeared to be 
their piss pee On south to altalfa 
field found elanoplus bivittatus larvee, 
small to half-grown, abdt. on margins and 
ditch banks. Swept Jasside and Cercopide 
from Agropyrum glaucum. On over to ary 
pond took Laccocera abdt., both sexes, from 
dry ground, by tence: also several Lygzids. 
| Coleopt. from willow. 
8-3 | Durango, Up hill east------ E. D. B_| Swept Artemisia 3-dentata; took  short- 
Colo. winged grasshopper, common everywhere, 
one Phlepsius sp. like one from Rifle, three 
white Anabrus from clumps on hillside. 
Swept oak: took Futtettix sp. near jucundus 
| (red) Scaphoideus, Melinna. Swept cedar; 
took Seaphoideus (white tip). red Platyme- 
| = topius, a green Eutettix and the pretty 
n.sp. 
8-15 | Fort Gollins...| North 6 miles____| C. P. G@_| Swept dry ground; took two species of Scolops 
and Driotura. Small bees from Cleome, 
Bombus from Helianthus. Typhlocybinee 
abdt.on apple. 
The labels we print ourselves on a hand press. Theyare all printed 
out except the day of the month, and where large collections are made 
on a given date the entire label is set up. The regular Fort Collins 
labels are all printed in advance for the season; the others are printed 
at odd times and as they are needed. 
The labels are never over 10 mm. long and 3 mm. wide; the card 
points are cut with a razor to a uniform length of 9 mm., and the 
labels are pinned at one end and extend under the card point. On 
insects that are pinned through the body the labels are pinned so as 
to extend parallel with the long axis of the insect. In this way it is 
‘very rare that a label extends beyond an insect, and never beyond a 
ecard point, thus insuring a neat collection. 
