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and lemon trees, and occasionally, if very numerous, gives the tree a sickly 

 appearance. But such an effect was rare, and one could not help feeling- 

 astonished at the luxuriant and vigorous growth of the average orange 

 grove and the symmetry and beauty of the trees laden with their golden 

 fruit, in soil, in most instances, so poor that one wondered where the 

 nourishment came from. In our course up and down the Ocklawaha 

 River, where the trees are everywhere clothed with the beautiful Florida 

 moss, Tillandsia usiieoides, and the swampy margins decked with brilliant 

 asters and other composite flowers, we observed many Neuropterous 

 insects on the wing, but did not succeed in capturing any ; indeed, the 

 catching of an insect seemed insignificant work in the midst of the excite- 

 ment attendant on the shooting of alligators, herons, ducks and other 

 large game, and at the close of the week there were very few spoils where- 

 with to grace the Entomological cabinet. Now, a few days later, amidst 

 frosts and snow, the novel recollection of the recent heated butterfly 

 chase, the cooling off under the shade of orange trees, imbibing the sweet 

 rich juice of the fully-ripened fruit, and the additional novelty of a sun- 

 burnt brow, all in the midst of the month of December, are things not 

 soon to be forgotten. 



ON THE PUPATION OF THE NYMPHALID^E. 



BV W. H. EDWARDS, COALBURGH, W. V.\. 



In Ent. Mo. Magazine for August, 1878, is a paper by Dr. J. A. 

 Osborne, respecting a discovery made by him of the mode by which the 

 larvae of the Nymphalidse attach the chrysalis to the button of silk, and 

 which is '• altogether at variance with the account given in Kirby and 

 Spence and other works." Dr. Osborne relates : "In watching the trans- 

 formation of V. Urticcc, I found that the chrysalis was attached to the old 

 skin of the caterpillar by a membrane sufficiently strong and permanent 

 to support the insect during the critical last moments of pupation, and 

 fully explaining why it does not fall down when the tail of the chrysalis is 

 withdrawn from the old skin and thrust up to be attached to the silk."' The 



