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ridge or "hog-back" leading to the next peak, and so it is 

 easy to go on and on until the day is spent, and then there is 

 the long journe)^ home. 



The comparing of specimens at the end of the day's trip is 

 one of the manj- pleasures, and identifying species in the field 

 is another. A certain savant, once upon a time, offered fifty 

 cents for each specimen that he could not identify in the field. 

 When he arrived home after the trip he wrote to a friend : 

 "Field identification is worth almost nothing." In the last 

 statement he was certainly correct. 



After a few daj's amid such scenes as here described two of 

 the party found it necessary to turn thtir steps homeward. As 

 the stage started down the thirty-three mile trail one morning 

 two of the party were aboard, and the writer bade them a sor- 

 rowful adieu as he turned his lonesome footsteps toward Scott's 

 Peak, of which and other scenes, both old and new, more 

 anon. 



The paragraph relating to my report of captures, published on page 348 

 of the January number of Entomological News, just received, should 

 read Catocala badia instead of Oedemasia badia. I reported also, at 

 the same meeting, the capture of a number of larvae of Oedemasia con- 

 cinna, on the same food plant, viz., bayberry, in October; hence, possi- 

 bly, the slight confusion of names. These larva;, at the end of October, 

 spun cocoons very similar in texture and appearance to that of Hyper- 

 chiria io, but almost transparent. I have twenty-one of these cocoons, 

 and the larva can still be distinguished, lying dormant, and apparently 

 awaiting the arrival of spring before pupating.— S.T. Kemp, Elizabeth, N.J. 



In the News for June, 1899, page 1S9, among the Doings of Societies, 

 is a short account of Fera/ia jocosa, setting forth some of its habits, which 

 do not agree with what we have observed here. We take this species 

 every year by beating from willow flowers, and during the evenings of 

 May Slh ami 9th, 189S, we took eight or ten specimens by shaking from 

 small plum and cherry trees which were in full bloom, it being an unusu- 

 ally early spring. We also take them (|uite often flying in the evening. 

 We do a good deal of collecting by taking a lantern and net, and walking 

 slowly along the numerous wood roads near here, and netting everything, 

 as far as possible, that comes within reach. In this way we get many 

 good things, and jocosa as often as any other ecjually rare species. It 

 eems to have a short season — only about fifteen days between our ear- 

 liest and latest dates.— Charles V. OooniiUK, Webster, N. H. 



