Having been requested by the worthy Editor of this journal to contribute a few hints on sugaring for Noctuæ, I have endeavored to put together a few notes may prove servicable to those who may not have been sucessful in this method of capture. To begin with, it ought to be a golden rule never to abandon a locality, even should it yield nothing for a few nights. Often have I sugared a new locality night after night, with absolutely no results, but by presevering the moths have become attracted to the place, and, in course of time, were swarming on every tree.

Many Entomologists are under the impression that the cocoons of this species and polyphemus are exactly alike in appearance. This is a mistake; and the collector who has been misled by writers on the subject and has got together by careful searching a dozen cocoons, expecting at least to get a small share of lunas from them, is greatly disappointed when they change to find them all polyphemus.