404 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Nov., ’08 
careful where he places his foot. Even such a danger as this 
will not be thought of when one is chasing a fine specimen. 
I clearly remember on one occasion when I surely thought 
my last hour had come. I had been collecting for a good 
while, when a beautiful wrsula crossed my path, flew over the 
tops of some trees, across a small brook and over a field. It 
did not take me long to get up to the place where it had 
alighted, but instead of letting itself be caught, it flew up and 
then across a wide stream. My mind was quickly made up as 
to what to do. I waded through the stream, scrambied up on 
the other bank and ran toward the bush on which it had 
alighted. I quickly threw the net over my prize, and, stepping 
closer, wanted to transfer it into my jar. Just as my foot 
touched the ground I heard a fearful hissing, and before I 
could look for the cause of it a large snake jumped out at me 
from under the bush. Thanks to my net, it did not strike me, 
but got entangled in the bag. Now instead of getting one 
specimen, I had two, one of which I could not kill very well 
with my jar. 
The first thing I did was to get a good strong stick, with 
which I managed to kill the serpent, which proved to be about 
five and a half feet long, of a dark brown color, but fortu- 
nately for me, not a copperhead. 
Thus we see that although collecting here is a little danger- 
ous, Baltimore County ranks high in the production of butter- 
flies and moths, which will always be the delight of our collec- 
tors and admirers of Nature. 
Mr. Henry L. Viereck has accepted a position as entomologist with 
Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich. 
THE collection of butterflies and moths made by the late Dr. Her- 
man Strecker, of Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, has been sold 
to the Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois. 
ButrerrLy Bootu.—At the State Fair Pavilion the Most Interesting 
Section in Big Hall—The collection of butterflies being displayed this 
year at the pavilion by Fred Burns, of Reno, Nev., attracted hundreds 
of people daily, and well it might, as they have been sent Mr. Burns 
from all over the world—Newspaper. 
