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and the bees buzzing past, to watch those beautiful creatures in the full 

 tide of happiness, flitting about from blade to blade of grass, and from 

 flower to flower, now opening and now closing their wings. 



"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever." 



At such times one may feel a kind of sorrow when two are seen to meet 

 in battle. They rush on each other with right good will, buffet each 

 other, fly over and over each other, now up, now down, away then on 

 the breeze, till the one takes to flight, and leaves the other "alone in his 

 glory." This pugnacity I have also observed in the Whites, if pugnacity 

 it is. It may be only a tilt for amusement, something to kill their time, 

 in imitation of those human butterflies that make life all amusement, 

 (what a- ? misuse of the word!) and must try something, and will try any- 

 thing to make that pass, they should keep longest. 



Dingy Skipper, (Thanaos tages.) — A specimen lies before me from 

 Birnie, Morayshire. 



Of the foregoing I have seen specimens, except of G. car did. To this 

 small proportion of British Butterflies time may add a few more, perhaps 

 of the Blues. 



The next 'bode,' I hope, may prove more interesting, in the form of 



lists of the Beetles, both Geodephagous and Hydradephagous. Now, that 



no longer 



"Vital power, 

 Productive energy, abroad are rife, 

 Investing all things with the hues of life," 



We must fight our battles over again, in naming, arranging, and 

 preparing notes on the summer captures; and these shall be presented to 

 the readers of "The Naturalist" when matured. 



Macduff, September 30th., 1856. 



SYSTEMA NATURE. 



BY THE REV. F. 0. MORRIS. 



(Continued from page 61.) 



Mephitis leuconota, Licht. Schinz. 

 Mephitis mesoleuca, Lich. Wag. Schreb. 



Schinz. M. nasuta, Benn. 

 Mephitis Chilensis, Licht. Schinz. M. 



furcata, Wag. Schreb. 

 Mephitis suffocans, Licht. Schinz. M. 



Feuillei. Gulo suffocans, lllig. 

 Mephitis Patagonica, Licht. Schinz. 



Conepatus Humboldtiii, Gray. 



Mephitis Amazonica, Licht. Schinz. 



Conepatus Humboldtii, var. Gray. 

 Mephitis Molina?, Licht. Schinz. 

 Mephitis Quitensis, Schinz. Gulo Qui- 



tensis, Humb. Licht. 

 Mephitis Gumilla?, Licht. Schinz. 

 Mephitis mesomelas, Lciht. F. Cuv. 



Schinz. 

 Mephitis macroura, Licht. Schinz # 



