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,not determine. Of Rhopalocera we found feeding on blue and 

 purple Asters, P. huntera, P. atalanta and D. archippus. My 

 young friend started up a Callidryas eubule feeding on Golden- 

 rod, and was soon lost sight of between the tops of highest trees. 

 About noon we espied another eubule flying above the tops of 

 trees, which shaded the avenue, and it seemed to be heading for 

 Philadelphia, with no time to stop. It was not enchanting to see 

 rarities pass out of view, but in the forepart of October my friend 

 captured four such in his garden in Astoria, L. I., of which more 

 hereafter. 



In a clearing of cultivated ground, close to the bay, we found 

 numbers of Tcrias lisa. We had previously taken a few, but 

 here they were at home. In a little while had taken fourteen 

 such, and I soon discovered why they were so plentiful. In the 

 centre of this clearing grew the larval food-plant of lisa, the. little 

 sensitive pea {Cassia ckamezcrista), and this accounted for so 

 many of these little beauties. They were easily taken, except 

 when hard chased; then they would rise from their low, jerkety 

 flight or drop suddenly down in among the withered grass and 

 defy detection or any effort to again dislodge them. One Enp- 

 toieta claudia was secured by my friend on the same field, where 

 a week later I took seven fresh-looking specimens of the same. 

 We also took a few albino 9 of Colias philodice and Junonia 

 ccenia came in for a share of the spoils. 



After lunching and trying to prevent mosquitoes following suit 

 at our expense, we moved on to other parts of this tongue of 

 land, where a larva hunt was now in order for that of Lepidop- 

 tera. The hot afternoon was well spent in finding larVse of Li- 

 macodidae, Saturniidse and Sphingidae. The Ichneumonids had 

 gotten in some of their fine work on many of the larger Saturnians. 



A week following I revisited the same locality alone, and a 

 stiff breeze blowing from the southwest nearly all day prevented 

 butterflies from coming to the open field. I saw and took only 

 one T. lisa. In place thereof Euptoieta claudia put in a welcome 

 appearance, which sought the violet-blue flowers of that little 

 dwarfed Aster, growing on a bluff overhanging the water's edge. 

 They had a habit of spreading out both wings while resting on 

 these azure flowers sunning themselves, or to prevent the wind 

 from lifting them off their feet I don't know which. When dis- 

 turbed or to evade pursuit, they would sometimes drop upon the 



