country, good, simple-hearted, enthusiastic Sim L. to attend to the 

 matter for me. Now I did not ask him to capture and preserve 

 specimens of Leucarctia acrcea Drury male. , He would not have 

 understood me, and I should not have obtained what I wanted, 

 but I wrote: " Dear Sim, Catch me a lot of ' ma'sh millers,'" and 

 Sim took the job and carried it to a sutcessfu! conclusion. 1 

 shudder to think what Messrs. A. and 15. antl C. our well-known, 

 sincere and earnest supporters of the doctrine that only scientific 

 and authorized names shoukl be aiiplicd to described species, 

 would say should they hear some of our entomological talks in 

 those northern regions. "What luck last night, Sim ?" T ask some 

 morning in July. ** Dreflle i)oor, .Mis' Slosson," says my honest 

 friend; "everlastin' lot o' millers, but all on 'em common, (luess 

 I took nigh on to a dozen browneys, more'n that o' blackeys, and 

 a heap o' chestnuts. Never ketched a single nice thing but one 

 drinker, and you've got plenty o' him. I see a modest miller an' 

 struck at him, but he got away." " Want any niggers. Mis' 

 Slosson?" calls out my little neighbor F)illy 1!., his freckled face 

 glowing with excitement and hope, "'i'here's a bustin' lot on 'em 

 round them posies in my backyard." And I know, as well as if I 

 had seen them myself, that that day-flying, sunloving ZygKnid, 

 Clt'iuicha I'ir^^inica, is sipping honey from Mrs. H.'s petunias. 



Bumblebee moths, big-grays, little-reds, scallops, fattys, 

 fussys, shutter-millers, bowlin' alley moths — these and many 

 more are the unscientific, but suggestive names given to the 

 Lepidoptera of the mountains, by my young collectors. And in 

 other orders, there are shinin' bug, the mud beetle, big horns, 

 prickly legs, sidewalk bug, humpy, straddly beetle, flat nose, dead- 

 rat bug, etc., etc. In fact, we have a vocabulary of our own, I 

 and my collectors, one wc fully understand, and by means of 

 which I secure many antl fine specimens unattainable there by the 

 use of more scientific terms. .\\\(\. the *' C'atalogue of described 

 insects of northern New Hampshire, prepared by Sim L., Billy B. 

 ^7 tf/," is just as valuable and important to me as are the lists of 

 Grote, Henshaw, Scudder, Osten Sacken, Cresson and Uhler. 



In Florida I use a different language. There the colored race 

 take an eager interest in our collecting. To them my moths are 

 no longer millers, but generalh' can'le flies, because, I suppose, of 

 their flying to light of candle or lamp. "Want a can'le fly, 

 missy?" cry the shrill voices of the dark-faced, bright-eyed little 

 chaps, running on bare, brown feet to bring a big cossid or 

 arctian. " Here, boss, here's a right smart heap o' can'le flies 



