22 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol. XI 



fifteen days. I only took a pair this year, though I saw quite a 

 few. It is a greater pleasure to observe the habits of a species 

 than to collect and I dislike to clean out a place. 



" There is never a year that the woods are not set on fire, and 

 this is no exception. Collecting at willows is out of the question 

 as the ' kids ' break down and destroy every pussy willow around 

 here. All this is the case around Providence. A dozen miles or 

 more away conditions would probably be different." 



