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wooded islands. Much of the swamp is a sphagnum bog, whence the 
Indian name, originally spelled “Ouaquaphenogaw,” meaning “tremb- 
ling-earth.” 
The personnel of the party consists of Professors C. R. Crosby 
and J. Chester Bradley, Dr. A. H. Wright, Messrs. M. D. Funkhouser, 
M. D. Leonard, A. R. Cahn and S. C. Bishop of Cornell University, 
and E. Lee Worsham, State Entomologist of Georgia. Dr. Wright and 
Mr. Cahn will give their attention to the vertebrates, and Mr. Cahn 
also to collecting fleas and Mallophaga. An extensive series of blood 
smears will be made, for the detection of blood-parasites. The other 
members of the party will devote their attention to insects, especial 
attention being given to aquatic forms. The party expect to remain 
in the swamp from eight to ten weeks. 
CoLLECTING IN Tropica, AmMrERICcA—As foreshadowed in the NEws 
for November, I9I1I, page 423, Messrs. A. F. Porter and John M. 
Geddes have enjoyed about, eight months collecting in the tropics. 
“We touched at St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Kitts, Antigua, Barbuda, 
Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbados and then 
down to the main land of South America in British Guiana. We col- 
lected usually two weeks in each of the islands and secured some nice 
things. As a whole the islands proved very unproductive in Lepi- 
doptera, but when we got out into the bush in British Guiana, we were 
indeed surprised at the great numbers of moths taken at night by 
light. We used an auto headlight and several lamps and would secure 
from 50 to 300 specimens on a single evening, or rather all night, for 
we usually worked all night long. Butterflies were not so plentiful, 
but the difference in species was very gratifying. I had no sickness 
of any kind during my entire trip and never spent such an enjoyable 
outing and collecting trip before. It is wonderful the different number 
of species one will take on a good night at light. On one of my best 
nights, I, myself, took 304 specimens and out of that number 267 were 
different species and besides Mr. Geddes secured about the same 
number of specimens, but I did not look over the material to see 
how many new species he could add to my list of different species. 
In all I think we took probably 10,000 specimens during our trip and 
if one is looking for exciting and interesting collecting, let him go to 
British Guiana.”—A. F. Porrer. 
Scarcity oF Earty INsects.—Insect life here this year is wonder- 
fully scarce. I have a large trap in which I have taken many hundreds 
of insects that come to light. I have set it thirteen evenings in April 
and three times in May and have captured absolutely nothing. To-day 
it is fairly warm and I have taken a score or so of wild bees and a 
