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Lastero Bay, South Florida." But, as I have said, it grows 

 ever}' where along Biscayne Bay. And, for some reason un- 

 known to me, it is the favorite food plant and haunt of insects 

 in all orders. Several years ago I found two fine Halisodota 

 caterpillars feeding upon this shrub. They proved to be 

 larvae of H. cinctipcs. I have never found any of these since 

 that time until this last winter. The very first walk I took 

 after my arrival it was on Christmas- day I found several of 

 these handsome caterpillars in different stages, and they were 

 to be seen occasionally from that time until February, and 

 perhaps later. They fed well in confinement, spun the usual 

 egg-shaped cocoons and emerged, between three and four weeks 

 after pupation, perfect moths, closely resembling our northern 

 H. tesselata. I have never seen these larvae on any plant but 

 the Trcina. There were always, too, upon this shrub two tiny 

 Jassids, Typhlocybas I think, brightly and daintily marked ; 

 and one day, as I swept my net over one of the bushes, a 

 delicate green Capsid flew and lighted upon my sleeve. It was 

 the most shadowy, fragile ghost of a Capsid, transparent and 

 almost invisible as it rested on the pale green underside of the 

 leaves, where I afterwards saw it. I took several of them. 

 Prof. Uhler has given it the MS. name Diaphania parvula. 

 One day, while hunting for this small creature, I came upon a 

 colony of aphids. Among them and feeding upon them was 

 what I felt sure was a L/ycaenid larva. It was of usual slug- 

 like form, with small head. My excitement was intense. I 

 took the leaf with the aphids and their devourer, placed 

 them in a glass tumbler in my room and at once wrote to 

 Dr. Skinner. Was Feniscca tarqninins found in South Florida, 

 or did he know of any other insectivorous butterfly larva in 

 this country? So I questioned him. Of course, our enthusi- 

 astic Aurelian was interested. He responded at once, urging 

 me to spare no pains in bringing the larva to maturity and 

 expressing hopes that I might find more specimens. Before 

 the letter reached me I had discovered another colony of plant 

 lice with a similar larva in its midst, and both my specimens 

 had formed chrysalids or what seemed to me such odd little 

 cases, light brown in color, which I did not examine very 



