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safe, and until we know to the contrary the only |»ractioe worth while 

 nnection with this insect. A sood, strong jack-knife is the only 

 required, several inches of the *""*«ip'*«'"»f toil having been re- 

 moved preriouily. 



Another Note on HyphantrU cuaea Drary (Lcpw). 



On July 4. 1901, at Blacksburg. Virginia, I obtamed a large nett of 



(>ecics from Pear, the larvae averaging aboot 5 mm. in length. 



,• were fed in oonfinemcnt and pirated on Aognst a. They wcra 



not observed further. On August 19. at AnnapoUs. Maryland, the 



lar^'ae were abundant in variooa stages of growth and a month later 



It was noted that all had popntcd for the winter. They were very 



abundant in that part of Ifaryland in igoi. On Aogost Jp a note 



was made to the effect that the caterpillars were very annoying in die 



town of Annapolis. crawUng over bo os a s , on to people and so on. 



Larvar were still in numbers September 13. 



Dryocampn labkaada (Lep.). 

 July 5. 1901, I obtained some of the caterpillars of this moth from a 

 sugar maple 00 the campni of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at 

 Ulacksburg. Virginia. The tree was baddy infested by them. Ten of 

 the larvae were co nfi ned and fed, entering the earth for pupation 00 

 July 5 (average) and em ergin g on July a8 to ja The few eggs ob> 

 tained were yellow, flattened, gtobolar from above, glab ro us , with a 

 diameter of about 1 .25 mm. 



A Butterfly Which ia Confined to Isolated Areaa of Small 



Some years ago b Virginia I used to ac c o mp a n y Mr. Hermann J. 

 Erb, of New York City, on some of his collecting trips into the moan> 

 tains of southwest Virginia. One of the most interesting of these (to 

 me then) and osoet fascinating of adventures into wo n d erla nd was a tr^ 

 to a Uttle valley at the base of what is called Roanoke Mountain near 

 Bladuborg. Here there seemed to be a "me ti upo li s" for that beautiful 

 and interesting species of butterfly. Papilio ajax. In this little depres- 

 sion they could be found in brgc numbers at certain times of the year 

 (mid July for one), while in the surrounding co untr y, only an occa- 

 sional individual would be enco unt ere d , probably a stray from the col- 

 ony. I made no note tending toward an explanatioQ. 



CoDectiag Motha of the NoctnU Oemia Catocala (Lep.). 

 During a number of trips with the same collector some of the most 

 ntercsting were in pursuit of those splendid bark-mimicking moths of 

 the genus Catccola. Armed with stout stidcs, an imfreqnented moun- 

 tain forest was usually entered and separating, the collectors went from 

 tree to tree, scraping their sticks lightly up and down the trunks. This 

 ctTectually frightened any moths resting upon the bark and when this 

 happened, the specimen was watched until it alighted again, upon 



