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rich purple of Vernonia; it is better to see only one diana on a 

 cluster, however, for if there are more, the effort to secure all at 

 a stroke generally results in the escape of all, and a diana once 

 alarmed is not always easy to approach. I have collected diana 

 along the Blue Ridge, but in my experience their stronghold is 

 near Brevard, in Transylvania County, North Carolina, and the 

 country around the Davidson River and head-waters of the 

 French Broad. In the valleys near Buck Forest Hotel and Cedar 

 Mountain and Cashar's Valley (near Brevard), wherever patches 

 of Vernonia are seen, and even on the dahlias in front of the 

 mountaineer's cottage, can be found, in August and September, 

 dianas enough to satisfy the most ardent collector. 



Colias eurytheme, so characteristic on the coast and midlands 

 of South Carolina (in fact, there, being the only Colias, save 

 c&sonia) is not seen here at all, being replaced by philodice. 



And lastly, among the Sphingidae, the great brown rustica is 

 occasionally taken at the Datura blossoms, though not as plenti- 

 fully as in Charleston County, South Carolina. I am now anx- 

 iously awaiting news from a pupa of Citheronia seputchralis cap- 

 tured on Pinus mitis last September. 



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RHOPALOCERA OF TENNESSEE. 



By WILLIAM OSBURN. 



During the Summer of 1894, while making a study of the in- 

 sect fauna of Nashville and vicinity, considerable attention was 

 given to the diurnals. As far as I am aware, no list of the but- 

 terflies of Tennessee has ever been published. The subjoined 

 list, representing seventy species, is not exhaustive, as but a small 

 section of the State has been explored, an area such as would be 

 described by a radius extending about fifteen miles from Nash- 

 ville. The season was unfavorable, owing to the excessively cold 

 spell in May and the unusual drought through most of the Sum- 

 mer. Observations extending over several seasons and including 

 the eastern and western portions of the State will probably in- 

 crease the list to one hundred species or more. In ENTOMO- 

 LOGICAL NEWS for March, 1893, Dr. Henry Skinner reports 

 Neonympha canthus, chrysophanus, hypophhcus and Grapta fau- 

 nus as found in North Carolina. In the April issue for 1894, 



