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FIELD AND FOREST. 



A Season's Collecting in Catocala. 



The following is a table of a season's hunt, and my object in mak- 

 ing it was to have a table of reference, showing when catocalae made 

 their appearance and disappearance, when the greatest number of 

 species and examples of each could be taken, and on what tree they 

 were most likely to be found. For these reasons I hunted close, and 

 took all the examples I could secure — good, bad and indifferent, keep- 

 ing a diary of each day's hunt and take. I commenced on June 20th, 

 but found no catocalse until July 9th. The beech trees were in almost 

 all cases from five inches to one foot in diameter, with twigs and 

 bunches of leaves from the base of the tree to the branches, forming 

 kn excellent hiding plac^ ; the oak, hickory and others were all large,, 

 rough-barked trees. 



The first number in the line refers 

 last one, the number of species taken : 

 July. 



9, illia, beech, 1 



to the day of the month, the 



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10 



grynea, oak, 1 

 10, illia, beech, 1 

 12, ultronia, beech, 1 



grynea, oak, 1 



serena, shell-bark hickory, 1 



obscura, shell-bark hickory, 1 



ultronia, beech, 3 



illia, beech, 5 



epione, oak, 2 m 



ultronia, oak, 1 



obscura, shell-bark hickory, 1 

 21, illia, beech, 4 



minuta, tulip poplar, 2 



serena, shell-bark, 1 



epione, oak, 1 



parta, maple, 1 



tristris tulip poplar, 1 



23, illia, beech, 3 

 serena, shell-bark, 1 

 neogama, beech, 1 

 obscura, shell-bark, 1 



24, illia, beech, 7 

 obscura, shell-bark, 2 

 serena, shell-bark, 2 

 epione, chestnut, 1 

 grynea, oak, 1 

 paleogama, beech, 1 



25, illia, beech, 1 

 retecta, oak, 7 



paleogama, beech, 4 

 neogama, beech, 2 

 obscura, shell-bark, 1 

 subnata, tulip poplar, 1 

 habilis, chestnut, 1 

 ultronia, beech, 1 

 epione, oak, 1 

 insolabilis, oak, 1 

 26, obscura, shell-bark, 4 

 insolabilis, oak, 3 

 paleogama, beech, 4 

 . flebilis, chestnut, 3 

 serena, shell-bark, 4 

 illia, beech, 1 

 y ponderosa, beech, 1 

 29, flebilis, chestnut, 4 

 • retecta, shell-bark, 1 

 illia, beech, 1 

 neogama, beech, 1 

 paleogama, beech, I 

 August 

 6, cara, chestnut, 1 



8, cerogama, maple, I 

 parta, maple, 1 

 paleogama, beech, 3 

 neogama, oak, 2 

 illia, beech, 4 



9, obscura, shell-bark, 5 

 serena, shell -bark, 2 

 habilis, oak, 3 



illia, beech, 2 



