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occasionally in the sweep net. General collectors will find many Ayme- 
noplera, some Hemiptera, Diptera and various Lepidopiera. 
Thistles will often repay search on their flowers. Some Longzcornia 
frequent it, Zypocerus velutinus being often common—Lepfura canadensis 
and dzimeata in smaller numbers and cthers occasional.  Zichius is often 
found on it as well as others of the Cetonzadae. 
The milk weed furnishes Zefraopes canteriator and telraophthalmus 
Chrysomela chvicolhs and several species of the Coccinellidae. 
Last though by no means, least @hestnut flowers deserve attention. /or- 
dellide swarm on them, and last year three new species were taken bya 
collector at Ithaca N.Y. Longicorns, and Curculionidae frequent them and 
Balaninus nasicus is often found in numbers. Different sections of the 
country will of course yield different species, but allied species or genera 
can be pretty certainly counted on in similar situations, so that although 
each collector may not take precisely such things as 1 have taken, some- 
thing similar is almost certain to be found. 
COLLECTION NOTES. 
By F. G. Scuaupp. 
At North Branch, June 26th & 27th a very large swarm of the hand- 
some and usually rare Pomphopea Sayi, Lec, settled on the blossoms of 
the common locust, (Rodina pseudacacia), most specimens in copulation, 
and very sluggish, but after those two days all had disappeared and none 
have been seen since. Here, at North Braneh the season is two weeks later 
than usual: this, in Botany is proved by the fact that Strawberries are just 
ripe, whereas the Raspberries which are now still green usually ripen about 
this date: it is proved in Entomology by the entire absence of many Long- 
icorns formerly found at this time, while things I never saw here before 
are commonly collected. Caradzdous larvee also are still abundant which 
is unusual at this time. ) 
Limenetis arthemis in former years very rare in July is now met 
with in numbers while Z. wrsuda which has never before been seen here 
by me is now found with ar¢hemis, in the proportion of two wrsuda to 
ten arthemis. 
