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woods near Savannah, rare." I hope before long to examine 

 these books .very fully, and will report more at length. At 

 any rate, they are a treasure. They were originally Francil- 

 lon's', and were purchased by the British Museum. They have 

 also in the Museum many Lepidoptera of Abbot's collecting, 

 some recently purchased at Milne's sale. 



Newman has just had a box of insects from the Cape of 

 Good Hope, in which is a Cetonia, closely allied to your C. brun- 

 nea Dej. Now is not this African species the true Indus, and 

 your American one a distinct speqies ? I think there can be 

 no doubt that yours is not the Indus of Linn, and Fabr., al- 

 though I am well aware of the little dependence to be placed 

 on the habitats given by either. India means, I judge, any- 

 where out of Europe. 



I told you that Argynnis Cybele and Aphrodite were two 

 species. I know the two, but cannot make out Kirby's de- 

 scription. 



I have another thing to tell you; I have been mistaken 

 about your Sesice. I have not Sesia diffinis of Boisduval. I 

 had not looked at his figure, and concluded that a specimen I 

 took at Trenton Falls was it, but find it quite distinct. Abbot 

 has drawn all. The one I have is smaller than Pelasgus, but 

 more like that than diffinis. I think it is not Kirby's ruficaudis. 

 On going over the British Museum Noetuidce, I have been 

 struck with the large numbers that have crept into our English 

 catalogues. Amongst these are Grrapliipliora subrosea Steph., 

 Hadena arnica Steph. (not of Ochs.), one or two JPlusice, Eu- 

 phasia catcena Steph., Scolopus Inops Steph., Acontia nigrirena 

 Steph., Opliiusa grandirena Steph., etc. Most of these I have. 

 A few, as the beautiful Euphasia catcena (Acontia catena Curt.), 

 I have not. There are two specimens of this in the British 

 Museum, from Abbot. It is something like Eudryas unio, 

 white, anterior wings with two olivaceous marginal spots and a 

 discoidal one, with a broad lilac border, in which, near the mar- 

 gin, are several sub-ocellated white spots ; posterior wings Avhit- 



