5.If The jSI'atLiralisis' Comj)aiii()ii. 
Shall We Collet Sets ? 
Tachinas memnonius^ Gkav. —(.’om- 
inon latter part o+‘ August. 
Boletobius cinctus, Gkav. —Very eoui- 
inon latter part of August. 
Oxyporus vittatus, Gkaa".—V ery eoiii- 
iii(')n; August. 
Tritoma humeralis^ Fabk.—C oiiiiiion 
in 1884; none seen since. 
Tritoma unicolor^ Sav. —IModerately 
common; August. 
HisterfoedatuSy Leconte, —Common; 
August. 
Epuraea rufa^ Say. —Very common; 
August. 
Pccadius hel volar, Ek. —Common: 
August 19tli. 
Cryptarcha strigata, Fabk.—A few; 
September 1st. 
Onthophagus hecate, Fanz.—C’ ommon; 
July and August. 
Ataenius stercorator,Y —Common; 
September 1st. 
Geotrupes sphndidus, Fabk. —Sexes 
found at bottom of a winding hole com¬ 
municating with tlie interior of the 
stem, and some three or four inches 
deep. With them was also found a 
pupa of the newly transformed male, 
which was .66 of an inch long, and 
white, with several short hairs. 
Geotrupes, Sr. (?).—One, of a blue- 
black color, August 26. 
Hoplocephala hicornis, Olia'.—C om¬ 
mon under fungi growing on trees in 
jNlay and June. 
Platydema excavatum, Say. —Common 
in fungi under the bark of dead pitch 
pine trees in March. 
Platydema ellipticum, Fabk.— As i)re- 
ceding. 
Tet7'atoma (?), Sr. (y).—A jet black 
species, much resembling a Mordellid. 
August 17tli. 
jMow is tlie proper time to send in 
your subscri})tion. 
Tile following, in rejily tolMr. Selov- 
er‘s article, ‘"The Oological Collector,’’’ 
in No. l,Vol. II, of the (fonrANioN, we 
clip from the last issue of the Oologist: 
As the last numbers of the Oologist 
and also of the Natukalists’ Comi’an- 
lON have contained articles in which 
the writers make it ajipear that all 
those wlio collect single eggs do so, not 
from a love of study, but from the de¬ 
sire to ""show otf,” allow me to say a, 
few words of defense through your val¬ 
uable paper. 
There may be advantages gained by 
collecting in sets, it is true, but I tliink 
that many oologists will stand by me 
when I say that as miich can be learn¬ 
ed from a collection of single eggs, 
properly kept, as there can from a c(»l- 
lection composed of sets. The way I 
do is to take the egg and till out a data 
blank the same as if I had taken the 
set. An egg register may also be kept, 
but if the data blank is })roperly kept 
there is no need for the register. In 
this way one can learn as much from 
a single egg as he can from a set, and 
is thus saved the additional trouble 
required to obtain the set. 
Collecting single eggs has the ad¬ 
vantage of being the more humane way, 
notwithstanding what Mr. Selover says 
to the contrary in the last number of 
the Natukalists’ Companion. As oo¬ 
logists are generally accompanied by 
one or two of their friends on collect¬ 
ing trips, it will be seen that one nest 
of eggs would often satisfy all if they 
collected single eggs, while two or 
three nests would have to be I’obbed if 
they collected in sets. It is bad enough 
that the birds should suffer at all, and 
if we can learn as much from a single 
