1910] Frost — Wet Weather Collecting 105 
brown. Wings hyaline, with red-brown stigma. In general similar to M. 
imbecilla, but much smaller, only 7 to 9 millimeters to tip of wings, and 
the stigma of wings is still shorter than in that species, and more swollen 
on the costal side. 
From Port Darwin, 10 Sept. (Dodd), apparently common. 

WET WEATHER COLLECTING. 
Until June 23, 1906, collecting lepidoptera had been associated 
in my mind with fairly pleasant days or nights, but on that date I 
started out on a misty forenoon with a beating net intending to look 
only for coleoptera. Promising logs and fungi led me into a thick 
growth of large hemlocks, pines, and firs, with scattered hard 
woods of several species, where several moths brought to mind the 
request of a friend for Geometride. After four hours work, the 
last of which was in a pouring rain, I retreated with eighty-five 
specimens representing the genera Heterophleps, Tephroclystis 
(Eupithecia), Mesoleuca, Hydriomena, Eucheca, Sciagraphia, Ma- 
caria, Homochlodes, Melanolophia, Avthaloptera, Anagoga, Gono- 
dontis, Caberodes, Sabulodes, and Xanthotype of the Geometride; 
Pyrophila, Homoptera, and some of the so-called Deltoids, besides 
some genera of the families of the Platypterygide, Pyralidide, 
Tortricide, and Cicophoride. 
Many of the specimens were taken on the sheltered side of the 
tree trunks, on the under side of lodged dead ones, and on the sides 
of old logs. They were flushed from the tops of live evergreens, 
from thickets of dead tops and brush, by throwing clubs and stones 
into them, from whence they would flutter away to the ground or 
to some nearby tree, where they were sometimes easily bottled. 
Again, some exciting net and foot work would be necessary, and I 
found that a heavy beating net — soaking wet, too,— is not the 
best thing for flying moths. I also discovered that thumps and 
kicks against the smaller trees would often bring down, besides the 
water, a number of species not otherwise seen. About 2.30 p. m., my 
clothing became so thoroughly soaked and the net had to be wrung 
out so often that it became too disagreeable even for an entomolo- 
gist. I have never seen the Geometride so plentiful as they were 
during that season at Monmouth, and Wales, Maine, which may, in 
a measure, account for my success on such a day. 
C. A. Frost. 
