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frit, further notice, Dr. P. P. Calvert will be unable to undertake 
ification of Odonata. Correspondents will please not send 
im specimens for thie prpne. 
afnual flight southward of Anosia plexippus began on October 
Eli Raetinsiog for severe! days, during which many. stores in the busi 
§ district were invaded by these interesting creatures. Their number, 
, was probably a trifle short of what it has been on former oc- 
Tey plexippus was taken by the writer 
‘ing the flight. Catopsilia eubule also seemed less in evidence than 
forme y. Ulolodes hyalina was taken here last July at a light. Calop- 
lerys maculata was quite abundant. Not a few collectors took Stiria 
‘season's catch. A somewhat worn specimen of Pamphila delaware was 
SIE Tailed cc the Missouri side of the “Father of Wotera” but con- 
aes cr oe Mlnsoer sds of he “Pas Collecting Lepidoptera 
here this summer and fall was somewhat of a disappointment, as there 
1 to be a dearth of everything, except Debis portiandia and Nath- 
jole. The latter fairly swarmed, especially about sandy railroad 
s, for the vicinity of which it seems to entertain a particular fond- 
o. little insect, similarly plentiful in 1904, seemed to have dis- 
from here entirely during the following years, only to re- 
Remarxaste Ovreeeax or Trruta Larvae—Early in February, 
f Tipuwla larvae were sent in to our laboratory from 
California. The letter accompanying them said 
occurring in immense numbers and devastating the 
wheat fields. The following from a letter from Dr. 
Stanley, of Hornitos will show something of their abundance: 
present time in all pasture lands you cannot overturn a stone, 
of cow manure anywhere without finding from five to 
each. A few days since, at sundown, I sprinkled a square 
with a solution of cyanide of potassium, a grain to the 
Next morning I went to the place and found the ground liter- 
with larvae. You could not put down the point of a pin 
. anywhere without touching one; I counted twenty-eight on one square 
. This was on a hillside where three weeks ago the ground was 
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