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landscape dotted with Palms, Orange trees, Magnolias, Live-oaks and other 

 evergreen trees, and the air so balmy as to at once suggest thoughts of 

 butterfly nets and collecting bottles. Of the latter we had with us a 

 supply, but not expecting to meet with anything on the wing, our insect 

 nets were left folded away in their wintry home. We turned over logs 

 and chips in search of insect life, but found very little to reward our 

 energies. Subsequently, while wandering about in Jacksonville, we saw 

 several butterflies on the wing, most of them new to us ; we recognised 

 that charming yellow, Ccdlidryas cubule as it floated about among the 

 beautiful roses, jessamines, poinsettas and other flowers in the gardens, and 

 we longed for a net that we might cultivate a closer acquaintance with this 

 and some of the other species which we were unable to determine in their 

 flight. Our old friend, Danais anliippus, was frequently met with, and 

 reminded us of summer at home. Florida, however, is very poor in 

 insects at this season of the year, but as summer approaches it is in many 

 parts a paradise for the collector. During a week spent in this land of 

 flowers we travelled over 800 miles along its rivers and railways, seeing 

 much of its characteristic scenery, the most southerly point touched being 

 Leesburgh, on Lake Griffin, a little south of the 29th degree of latitude 

 and 300 miles south of Jacksonville by tortuous river travel. Here 

 butterflies were more abundant, and having landed with a very pleasant 

 party in an orange grove, amidst half a million of oranges on 2,500 large 

 bearing trees, one was puzzled what to do first. The oranges were 

 tempting, but the sight of beautiful specimens of Agraulis vanilla, D. 

 Berenice, with charming Heliconias, Theclas, etc., was still more overpower- 

 ing, and with hat in hand, the butterflies were vigorously pursued until 

 several specimens had been secured, but with such imperfect means of 

 capture at hand, the beautiful insects were battered and torn, and our 

 clothing having become covered with malignant burs collected in the 

 chase, we thought it best under the circumstances — the first burst of 

 enthusiasm being over — to devote our attention more particularly to the 

 orange question. 



While vigorously consuming oranges, enquiries were made as to 

 whether the trees or fruit were subject to insect enemies. Beyond occa- 

 sional specimens of the larva of Papilio cresplw/ilcs, we could not learn 

 of any caterpillar which consumed the leaves, and the only insect which 

 seemed to trouble the orange growers at all was a species of Coccus — 

 Aspidiotus citricola — which attacks the bark and foliage of both the orange 



