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very fine insect, itself looking like a brilliant flower. Like other members 

 of the group, it often alternately expands and closes its beautiful black and 

 scarlet wings in the sun when resting from flight. There seem to be two 

 broods in the season ; one appearing in June, one in Sept. and Oct. The 

 transformations of this wide-spread species are sufficiently known. A day 

 or two before the evolution of the butterfly the brilliant marking of the fore 

 wings l^ecomes distinctly visible through the transparent skin of the pupa ; 

 but all in miniature. I have taken a chrysalis in this condition between 

 my fingers, and gently pressing it till the skin of the back cracked, the 

 butterfly crawled out. Though it was quite lively, the wings did not begin 

 to expand for more than an hour ; then they rapidly attained their full 

 size and jjerfect form, without any injury from the premature birth. Though 

 the Red Admiral is so abundant in Newfoundland, I cannot recollect that 

 I ever met with it in Lower Canada, and very rarely in Alabama. 



Pyr. Cart/i/i, Linn. The last remark is true of this universally distri- 

 buted species also. In Newfoundland, however, it is more abundant as 

 larva than as imago ; the caterpillars, in great societies, crowding the 

 web-clothed thistles by the wayside, which I have found very easy to rear, 

 while if we search the same plants a few weeks later no trace of one and 

 not even an empty pupa-skin appears, and the butterflies are far from 

 numerous. The chrysalis is even more beautiful than that of Mi/berti, 

 the gilded spots being often orange-colored. 



Chionohas Calais, Scudd. (Jf this species I am sorry to say I can 

 give no accoimt, except the colored figure in my book of drawings, which 

 was certainly made from a specimen taken near Carbonear. 



Cmtionympha inornata, Edw. If my little Orange-brown is indeed 

 this species, it must be wide-spread, since this reaches to the Pacific. In 

 Newfoundland it is not uncommon, though local. In Aug. 1833, I found 

 a few specimens on Carbonear Island, and in July of the following year, 

 immense numbers were swarming there, though only one or two straggling 

 individuals were to be seen elsewhere. I know nothing of the immature 

 stages. 



Chrysophmiiis Epixafit/ie, Lee. This tiny butterfly, which I called 

 the Purple-disk, was the smallest species that I had ever seen, expanding 

 less than an inch. It appears to be rare. I met with it only in 1834, at 

 the end of July and the beginning of August, chiefly on some low shrubs, 

 unknown to me, whose leaves have an aromatic odor somewhat like that 



