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I again studied the cranberry insects in New Jersey, I was unable to find 

 any trace of the " girdler" on our bogs and did not again refer to the 

 matter. On two or three occasions I have received communications or 

 specimens from Cape Cod, but never sufficient in number or in condition 

 to be carried to maturity. Mr. Scudder has succeeded, however, and has 

 identified the species. The insect is not exclusively a cranberry feeder, 

 for Mr. Felt describes its larva as subsisting on grass and sheep sorrel, 

 and while I have taken the moths in Ocean County, May 21st, I have 

 never seen on any of our bogs any girdled vines. There is, apparently, 

 a difference of more than a month in the dates of flight as between Cape 

 Cod and Ocean County, N. J., Mr. Scudder recording it the first days of 

 July, while at Ithaca, N. Y., Mr. Felt records it July 5th to 28th. It is 

 not improbable that this difference in the date of maturing has some 

 bearing on the exemption from injury of the New Jersey bogs. Mr. Scud- 

 der gives "about a month" as the duration of the pupa stage, and as the 

 "water is rarely drawn from New Jersey bogs before May loth, and moths 

 taken by me May 21st could not have come from them, unless, what is 

 hardly probable, they entered upon their development under water. 



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One way of taking up a collection. — " We have a certain parson," 

 Dean Hart, of Denver, writes, giving his narne, "whom we keep on the 

 frontier. He is a rough diamond, and has a knack with the miners. Not 

 long ago he went to a camp called Rico, borrowed the dance hall over 

 the saloon for his service, ' rounded up his boys' and the hall was filled. 

 After the sermon came the collection — a very important feature. The 

 preacher ran his eye over his audience, and seeing a certain gambler 

 known as 'Billy the Kid.' 'Billy,' he said, 'take up the collection,' 

 Very much honored, Billy took his big sombrero hat, and with an impor- 

 tant and dignified air, as was fitting for the occasion, he made his way to 

 the front and held his hat for a young man on the foremost chair to 

 'donate.' 



