226 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [September, 



THE BUTTERFLIES' FAD. 



Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 



I happened one night in my travels 



To stray into Butterfly Vale, 

 Where my wondering eyes beheld butterflies 



With zuhigs that zvere wide as a sail. 

 They lived in such houses of grandeur, 



Their days were successions of joys. 

 And the very last fad these butterflies had 



Was tnaking collections of boys. 



There were boys of all sizes and ages 



Pinned up on their zaalls. When I said 

 'Twas a terrible sight to see boys in that plight, 



I was answered: " Oh, well, they are dead.'' 

 We catch them alive, but we kill them 



With ether — a very nice way, 

 Just look at this fellow — his hair is so yellow. 



And his eyes such a beautiful gray. 



" Then there is a droll little darkey 



As black as the clay at our feet, 

 He sets off that blonde that is pinned just beyond 



In a way most artistic and neat. 

 And now let me show you the latest, — 



A specimen really select, 

 A boy with a head that is carroty red 



And a face that is funnily specked. 



" We cannot decide where to place him. 



Those spots bar him out of each class. 

 We think him a treasure to study at leisure, ' 



And analize under a glass." 

 I seemed to grow cold as I listened 



To the words that these butterflies spoke ; 

 With fear overcome, I was speechless and dumb, 



And then with a start — I awoke ! 



Our Dufnb Animals. 



On May 19 I took a collecting trip to Eagle Rock, Orange Mountains, 

 N. J., at which place there is a rail fence built along the road, on which, 

 for the last two years, I have taken some different kinds of beetles, hiding 

 in the joints, and in looking for these I took notice of some bore holes 

 which I took for the work of Scolytus or Buprestidae, but it gave me quite 

 a surprise on this trip to find Magdalis barbita emerging from holes in a 

 shellbark hickory post. The first one I thought nothing of, but after find- 

 ing four more specimens in the same manner I made note of it, as it may 



