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this uncommon and singular species was by Squaw Creek, in 

 Chaffee County. Poedisca ridingsiana Rob. was found near 

 Gypsum on September 8th. 



Crossing over Cottonwood Pass, on September 9th, the features 

 of the country were entirely changed. The sky cloudless blue, 

 and rising against it gray rocks covered with lichens; and hill- 

 sides, all Oak Scrubs Quaking Asps, Wild Cherry and Dwarf 

 Birch. The Oak, some of the brightest green, some vivid red; 

 the Aspens yellow, Wild Cherry red, and Birch yellow; all inter- 

 mixed and giving the landscape far more color than flowers 

 could do. 



CAPTURING CATOCAL/E. 



By A. J. Snyder, North Evanston, 111. 



Earlv in the morning on August 3d, my wife and I left Farnia, 

 111., for a fourteen-mile drive into a wild part of Clay County. 

 We wished to visit a place called " Rattle Snake Den," a section 

 which I visited several years previous with some friends who were 

 interested in geology, and where we found some valuable fossils. 

 It occurred to me that this same locality might prove, as it was 

 covered with a good growth of oak and hickory trees, a good 

 hunting ground for Catocalae. 



About two miles southwest of lola, a small country post-office, 

 we entered the woods, and finding the country much changed 

 since my previous visit we drove but a short distance when I 

 alighted and began my search for the creek bed which we had 

 explored before. Whip in hand, brushing the trees as I passed, 

 almost immediately I started a fine specimen, probably an ob- 

 scura, and in my haste to capture it became excited and lost it. 

 Soon, however, I had better success, and took a fine specimen 

 on an oak, and almost at once another from a scalebark hickory 

 near the first. Failing to find the place of which I was in search, 

 I turned in another direction, and crossing a swampy piece of 

 land, then dry, I started a fine cara, and an exciting chase began. 

 The insect was so large that several times in attempting to take 

 it with the bottle I touched its wings and it escaped. I soon cap- 

 tured a very fine specimen, however, of the same species. 



My next capture was a fine gry^iea. After some time we found 

 the desired locality, and, hitching the horse, we began the hunt 



