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pair of Pieris ilaire. I was also so very fortunate as to capture 

 one more specimen of the rare little beauty, Thecla acis, of which 

 I found a pair last year. The only butterfly which was at all 

 common was a little blue Lyctzna, I think it is L. ammon which 

 was flying about the few and rare blossoms near the beach. Near 

 the hotel a white bur marigold {Bidens leucantha) had escaped 

 the fros.t, and was in bloom everywhere, looking much like our 

 commo^ dai.^y or white weed of the North. Probably because 

 it was one of the very few plants in flower this proved exceedingly 

 attractive to Hymenoptera and Diptera. The brilliant carpenter 

 bee, Xylocopa micans, always common here, boomed and buzzed 

 about these blossoms, a few bumble bees (B. pennsyhanicus and 

 B. americanoruni) came to them at times, and Melii>sodes bimacu- 

 lata, one or two species of Augochlora and Agapostemon flitted 

 about them. Here, too, I captured two specimens of a tropical 

 insect, Elis tricinda, never before recorded as found in the United 

 States. A handsome Ccelioxys, black and red was taken here and 

 is probably either a new species or West Indian. Upon one or 

 two lime trees there were a few blossoms left untouched by the 

 frost, and around these were always flying wasps and hornets. 

 A Vespa V. cuneata, I think Polybiacubensis, and two or three 

 species of Polistes, were common here. And Zethus slossontz 

 Fox was very abundant. I took some twenty specimens of this 

 one morning, and among them found Eumenes smithii, which, 

 from its coloration and superficial resemblance, I had mistaken 

 for the Zethus. But one day moth, I think, was seen here, a 

 pretty fellow I had never before found. It is, I suppose, the 

 Deiopcia aurea Fitch, afterward described by Clemens as Poe- 

 ciloptera compta, and called by Prof. Smith, in his check list, 

 Oeta aiirea Fitch. I am not sure of this synonymy, as I am 

 away from my library. It is a showy insect, though small, with 

 fore wings of shining orange, marked with bluish-black patches 

 containing yellow spots; hind wings dark, semi-hyaline. I took 

 several specimens of this moth. Composia fidelissima was not 

 seen at all. There were no night moths, or almost none, two 

 or three microlepidoptera and one small geometer, that was all, 

 I think. Of Coleoptera I found some forty species in the two 

 weeks of my stay. Of these over twenty were not included in 

 Dr. Hamilton's list of Lake Worth Coleoptera ("Can. Ent. " 

 xxvi, 250) nor in my additional list ("Can. Ent." xxvii, 9). 



