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the few orange blossoms which opened in spite of the drought, 

 we found beautiful specimens of Erycides batabano. They flut- 

 tered about the fragrant flowers like humming birds, their wings 

 glancing in the sunlight with touches of sapphire and emerald. 

 With them, and sipping from the same blossoms, we took three 

 specimens of an Alypia new to me, and which I cannot place till 

 I have access to my books. Along the shore, just inside the 

 thicket of mangroves, are long flat stretches of sand, often sub- 

 merged and always wet. On these grow little but samphire {Sali- 

 cornia ambigna) Iresine vermicularis and such marine plants with 

 fleshy, succulent leaves and insignificant flowers. But over these 

 in the hot sunshine at midday were always flitting tiny Lyctznas 

 and Theclas. Here I took the little bronzy L. isophthalma, L. 

 filenus, L. theomts (a lovely little species, the female with wings 

 almost white), Thecla pccas, T. M-albiDn and T. melimis (this 

 last name is given me by Dr. Henry Skinner). There were so 

 very few blossoms that I knew nearly every plant which bloomed, 

 f and could visit each one as I made my collecting rounds. One 

 large thistle (C. horriduluni) with several heads of pale yellow 

 flowers was always a favorite spot for insects, and wherever a 

 plant of the ugly fireweed {Erechthites) lifted its greenish, com- 

 monplace heads of flowers they were surrounded by little gay- 

 winged lovers. Seeing at a distance one day what looked like a 

 patch of large white blossoms I went towards it only to find a mat 

 of the little creeping hyssop (Herpestis monnierd) with tiny lav- 

 ender flowers covered with the Southern cabbage butterfly (P. 

 monuste). There were at least twenty on a patch not two feet 

 square. Hesperidae abounded, skipping jerkily about the grounds 

 of the hotel and over the palmetto scrub; Paniphila brettus, P. 

 fusca, P. phyla:us (Dr. Skinner gives me these names), P. arpa, 

 P. maculata and several others yet unnamed. Calcphelis ccenius 

 was also abundant. The evenings were generally windy and cool, 

 not favorable conditions for moth hunting, but we met with com- 

 parative success. At light we captured many fine specimens, 

 some still unidentified. Here we took Hyparpax aurichictus (I 

 think that this is the name given last year by Mr. Graef, but I 

 have no book for reference), Varina ornata Neumoegen, Lito- 

 prosopus futilis G. & R., Byssodes obnissata Gr. , Lepiodes scolo- 

 pacinaria Guen. , Dilophonota obscnra Fab. , Ellema coniferanaii 

 A. & S. , Lagoa pyxidifera A. & S. , Platccccticus gloi'eri Pack. , 



