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evening meal, light my lamps to attract moths, and sit down 

 to spread insects, or press plants, always till after midnight, 

 sometimes until the rosy-fingered goddess showed herself in 

 the east, when, from a couple to four hours of sleep, made 

 me ready to begin a new day. Reader, if ever it should be 

 thine to reside in a hot climate, never neglect two things ; 

 the one to take plenty of exercise, regardless of the heat of 

 noon, but regardful of chill night dews ; the other, to take 

 great care of thy skin, for the moment perspiration is stopped 

 fever begins. Ill health I never knew in East Florida, until 

 lameness hindered me for some days from taking long walks ; 

 want of exercise then brought on lassitude and debility. 



Coleoptera were now getting more numerous. Of the Ci- 

 cindela, the earliest was Cic. unicolor, Dej., which, though 

 found in almost all the pathways distant from the river, was 

 still a rather rare insect. This was followed by Cic- tortuosa, 

 Dej., Cic. punctulata, Fab., and Cic. marginata, Fab., all 

 mostly frequenting the shores of the river, especially the mud 

 left bare at low water. Further from the shore the beautiful 

 Cic, abdominalis, Fab., made its appearance in June, and 

 then, too, Cic. dorsalis, Say., [Cic. signata, Dej.), was very 

 abundant at the mouth of the river. Under the fallen trees, 

 or any scattered boards (stones there are none) you would 

 find Pasimachi, Galeritce, Chlcenii, Scarites subterraneus, 

 Harpalus hicolor, Clivina crenata, and other allied insects. 

 Beneath the bark of the pine stumps, Ancliomenus decorus, 

 Alaus myops^ and sometimes Al. oculatus^ a good many He- 

 teromera and not a few scorpions were to be found ; and in 

 the decaying stumps of the water-oak, many species of Te- 

 nehrionidcB were common, though less numerous than they 

 had been in the winter months. On the brush-wood 

 various Telepliori, Digraphce, Dictyopteri, Elateridce, Cur- 

 culionidcB, and ChrysomelidcB were now to be found. On the 

 flowers of the dwarf oaks we took two or three species of 

 Hydnocera and some beautiful Cryptocepali ; ' on those of the 

 farkleberry [Vaccinium arhoreum) several small Lehi<B (as 

 Leb. tricolor, vittata, viridis, pulchella), the pretty Trichius 

 viridukis, and the equally pretty but more rare Trichius lunu- 

 latus. Cetoni(B too appeared; two species in great abun- 

 dance, Cetonia brunnea, Dej. {Scarab(Bus Indus, Lin.), and 

 Cetonia sepulchralis, the latter in various flowers, the former 

 flying over the pathways. The palmetto flowers were the fa- 

 vourite haunts of Trichius Delta. During our whole stay in 

 East Florida I had adopted my old plan of illuminating our 



* Vide ' Mag. Nat. Hist.' new series, vol. iv. p. 250. 

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