86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., '07 



fit into my -coat pocket, and Sunday morning, bright and early, 

 I started out on my first trip. Anyone visiting St. Louis in 

 the summertime should not fail to take an electric car ride 

 to Creve Coeur Lake (The Bleeding Heart) about thirty miles 

 from the city. The cars are open, the road absolutely dust- 

 less, and the speed up to forty miles an hour. 



The double track runs through a most beautiful coun- 

 try, with wooded hills and valleys, fruit gardens and corn- 

 fields. Small colonies formed by city people are rapidly 

 growing up along the line, and at the terminal, Creve Cceur 

 Lake, improvements are constantly being made to increase 

 the attractions of the place. The electric road ends on top 

 of a "bluff" about 250 feet, I should judge, above the Creve 

 Cceur Lake. The plateau is only a few acres in extent, but 

 on both sides are other "bluffs" with deep ravines between 

 them and below the lake shore, with all the attractions cus- 

 tomary to such a place. The scenery from the bluffs is truly 

 grand and passes my ability to describe. The vegetation is 

 rich and varied. On the bluffs oak, elm, walnut and hickory, 

 and on the bottom land immense cottonwood trees and syca- 

 mores. Of weeds and grass there was an abundance, as well 

 as of blackberry bushes and burning nettles ; in fact, some 

 parts of the limited area of the woods,, I traversed were well- 

 nigh impossible to penetrate. A scaly lime rock formation 

 formed the "bluffs," and towards the lake the rock cropped 

 out, forming walls of considerable height, with water trick- 

 ling out between the layers forming cascades, or rather sug- 

 gestions of such. Viewed from the lake the hills had the 

 same appearance as those along the Mississippi River, and 

 it is quite evident that Creve Cceur Lake is formed by the river, 

 and, I was informed, is yet filled to overflowing at times 

 when the river is unusually high. 



About 9.30 that beautiful Sunday morning I arrived at my 

 destination, and had hardly ordered my breakfast when a fine 

 cresphontes came sailing along not ten feet from the table. A 

 hurry-up warning to the waiter was the first effect, and 

 when a few minutes later a beautiful Papilla ajax came almost 

 within striking distance I forgot what little I know of table 



