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death, this butterfly has a delicate bluish bloom over the deep 

 rich red of its wings, entirely absent from the dried insect. I 

 have as yet seen but two shabby specimens of Timetes dcuclm. 

 I found a pupa under some dock leaves the other day, and 

 from it has just emerged a fine shining golden moth, Ptusio 

 rcrrtica. I have seen but one specimen of Composia fidelliH- 

 sima this season, nor have I seen Alypia wittfeldii, so common 

 last winter here around the white bur-marigold. 



Skippers (Hesperidce) are fairly numerous, two or three spe- 

 cies very common. The little P. hayhurstii is everywhere; 

 Pamphila ethliux is common, and its odd larvae are ruining the 

 cauuas in the hotel grounds. Erycidcs amyntas is not rare 

 this season. Dr. Dyar discovered its life history here two 

 years ago. Its food plant is Jamaica dogwood (Piwidia eryth- 

 rina), a shrub or small tree of the Legumiuosa?. The most 

 common Lycaeua, or " little blue," is L. aininon. Here, and 

 also at Lake Worth, it is very common, flying all day about 

 flowers in the sunshine. L. file nut and L. thevnu-t, the latter 

 having the wings of female white faintly shaded with blue, 

 are not rare. But a few specimens of Thecla arix have as yet 

 appeared, and I have seen only one T. wn-tialis. I have 

 done but little collecting at light this season. The evenings 

 have been too cool or too windy as a general thing. As usual. 

 the chocolate brown sphinx, E.i>/:> ln;/uhris, is very common, 

 both at flowers in the twilight and at light, while the lovely 

 green sphiugid, Perffesathorat.es, not yet included in our printed 

 lists, is not uncommon. The larger green Art/eux /ahriixnt is 

 occasionally seen, as is also the still larger sphinx, r.idiylla 

 iicux. One very warm still evening this month thousands of 

 small beetles came swarming to the lights. Hundreds of the 

 little water beetle, Helochnwx ocliracriix, came into doors and 

 windows, and many small Scolytids and Lougicorns rested on 

 floor of piazza near the electric lights. Last night I took a 

 moth I have never before seen, and which I suppose to !>< 

 Halisidola striffoxa. It is a beautiful insect, with crimson ab 

 domeu tipped with black and thinly scaled brownish wings, a 

 West Indian species. 



(To he Continued.} 

 MIAMI, FLA., February th. 



