Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . THE RARE HAWKMOTH, SPHINX DOLLlNatural size ing and with ordi-nary precaution wedid not think of themas dangerous. Thedeep - rooted enmityof the farmers to-wards all snakesprobably accountedfor the scarcity of theharmless of them broughtus a gopher snake, Pityophis catenife?\ killed in the of its greatly distended body we removed two adultgophers and five young. We hoped this would convince thefarmer of the fallacy of killing so beneficial a species. Toads began breeding early in May, their nightly cho-rus, coming from an overflow on the ranch,
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . THE RARE HAWKMOTH, SPHINX DOLLlNatural size ing and with ordi-nary precaution wedid not think of themas dangerous. Thedeep - rooted enmityof the farmers to-wards all snakesprobably accountedfor the scarcity of theharmless of them broughtus a gopher snake, Pityophis catenife?\ killed in the of its greatly distended body we removed two adultgophers and five young. We hoped this would convince thefarmer of the fallacy of killing so beneficial a species. Toads began breeding early in May, their nightly cho-rus, coming from an overflow on the ranch, continuing intoJune. Quite common proved the western spade-foot, hammondi, but like its eastern kin, ScapMopusholhroolxi, it is very secretive and could be found only at nightby the aid of a lantern. The call is a loud June, after the breeding season, it disappears EVENING PRIMROSE, OENOTHERA CALIFORNICA Upon the fragrant, white blossoms, two inches in diameter, the rare hawkmoths, Sphinx dolli, were captured 37 The only frog found at Bellevue, the western tree frog,Hyla arenicolor, breeds in the shallow pools of streams andhas a metallic, bleating call. Mr. Dolls insect collection, butterflies especially, grewapace from day to day. He was elated over the fine series ofsome species which since the early government explorationsto the Grand Canyon regions had not turned up again, butalso he was disappointed over the poor showing of the collec-tions of moths, due to the cool and at times bitter cold anything came to the trap lantern or to the bait ontrees. With great interest we had been watching the develop-ment of an evening primrose, a beautiful, low growing plantwith pure white flowers an inch and a half in diameter, forit was on this flower that we expected to capture the muchdesired hawkmoth, Sphinoc dolli. When it finally began
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