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ened specimens are often fruitless, besides rubbing the stick up 

 and down the bark may strike the moth and ruin it for cabinet 

 purposes. However, a "rousting" stick is indispensable, as 

 the moths are sometimes out of the reach of the jar. Climbing 

 may be resorted to in such cases where possible. Hot days are 

 the best for Catocalae hunting, but not necessarily sunshiny 

 days. 



It has been a puzzle to us to know just what elements of 

 weather constitute a Catocala day. A sultry, sunshiny day 

 was our first impression, but we sometimes found hot cloudy 

 days just as good. 



It is quite probable that after a night of rain the moths take 

 refuge nearer the ground than at other times. 



Often, unaccountably, there was a scarcity when we expec- 

 ted an abundance, and again when we expected little we reaped 

 a real harvest, still on hot, bright days there were always 

 moths to be found, high or low. 



About dead stumps and old logs we never took other than 

 innubens and scintillans, with an occasional neogama. 



White-barked trees, like butternut and hickory, shelter the 

 species with light colored upper wings, while the dark-barked 

 trees furnish protection to the species with darker upper wings. 

 As a matter of fact, each moth seeks the shelter that makes 

 his color inconspicuous. So nearly are the bark and the closed 

 upper wings of the moth alike in color that even a trained eye 

 is often deceived, a most interesting case of protective colora- 

 tion. 



A new species of Eotettix (Acrididae) from Georgia. 



By J. A. G. Rehn. 



On January 6, 1906, Mr. Morgan Hebard took a male indi- 

 vidual of this genus at Tyty Plantation, south of Thomasville 

 and immediately north of the Florida line, in Thomas County, 

 Georgia. The specimen proved to represent a very distinct 

 new species, which I take great pleasure in dedicating to Mr. 

 Hebard. 



