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<lit1iciilty ill bottling these, though I scarcely dared breathe 

 as I slowly advanced the bottle, 

 C. hisoJabilis Gn. Quite coniinoii, tli<)ii<i,li not hard to detect, 

 and not very wild. 

 l^ C. ofowj/ro Strk. Hare, or at least not easy to find; have 

 taken about five here. They prefer large trees, and some- 

 times hide under the loose hark, and once I took one that 

 had pitched in the grass. 

 6Vf^om?as were very abundant this season ; I often took fifty 

 to sixty good specimens in a morning or evening's tramp. .\s 

 usual I found the afternoon more productive than the morning. 

 On hot days I found them plentiful in the morning, but usually 

 they " roosted" high, and l)egan to descend towards the roots 

 in the afternoon, becoming more and more abundant towards 

 dusk. T found day collecting more profitable than sugaring, 

 and, after several attempts, gave up the latter for Catornhoi. 

 I have also found that medium sized oaks, Avith an abundant 

 growth of small branches near the ground, such a growth as 

 small white oaks frequently exhibit, were more thickly popu- 

 lated than bare trunks, and, on rapping sucli a tree, after 

 vainly examining it, a half-dozen or more C(rf/<>^a/^^s' would often 

 start away. Lachrijmosa and ridiiafa seemed to prefer bare 

 trunks. From August 4th until September 5th this year I 

 took o\ er .500 CafoeaJas, a large proportion being C. p((lrof/((iii(i. 

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THE FOURTH OF JULY. 



CollecUny In the Civ'iotrH M(nith. 

 By Henky Skinner. 

 We couhl not be said to be ''seeking the bubble reputation 

 even in tlie cannon's mouth," but were after buttertties, not to 

 speak of moths and other insects. The 2nd of July found us 

 in the "City of the Saints;" and, judging from the amount 

 of noise, patriotism was rampant, and the racket iucrease«l 

 every hour until the evening of the Fourth, when it gradually 

 died away like a passing thunder-storm. On the 3d we went to 

 Ked IJntte Canon, back of Fort Douglas, and had fair success 

 ('ollecting, and retired that night and tried to sleep through 

 the fearful din. The morning of the Fourth was bright and 

 propitious, and we started early for the home of our good 



