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Then there was flam-flam, and donkey eyes, and 

 zebra, but not the zebra William knew. The black 

 swallowtail had an unfamiliar yellow band across 

 its front wing; while the only skipper seen had brown- 

 ish wings, a blue back, and long blue tails. Chil- 

 ades, syntarucoides, eurema, kricogonia, acolastus, 

 hesperia, anastrus, padraona, calpodes, and nic- 

 oniades completed the list. 



Moths 



First ot all, William recognized his enemy ot the 

 tobacco fields, the big tobacco-fly, hovering about 

 the Jimson weeds at dusk. Resembling this in 

 shape and habit, were the trangipani sphinx, the 

 blue-green sphinx, the brownish-yellow sphinx, and 

 the green sphinx. 



A beautiful little moth with rose-colored hind 

 wings and narrow, white front wings covered with 

 orange and black dots, reminded him strongly of 

 one he had seen in the fields at home; but there were 

 two little new ones that seemed even prettier. One 

 had a blue body and crimson wings with blackish 

 borders, while the other was blue all over except for 

 a white bar across its front wings. 



A handsome moth visited the sapodilla trees; the 

 sugarcane was attacked by a borer which turned in- 



