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maries narrowly pale yellow and the light yellow costo-apical spot 

 repeated; internal margin pale. Texas. Expanse 15 mil. In my col- 

 lection. 



No one who has carefully examined our dozen species of Spragiieia, 

 and carefully dissected, as I have done, all but two or three, observing the 

 neuration and the narrow wings, can fail to consider the genus valid and 

 essentially different from Erotyla s^dphuralis of Europe. 



(To be Continued.) 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Dear Sir : The unusually mild and balmy weather that we have been 

 enjoying for the last week has made it an easy task for the Entomologist 

 to neglect his cabinet and correspondence, even now, in the very heart of 

 the exchanging season, and go out into the woods in search of treasures. 

 Thus many a luckless Vanessa or Grapta, beguiled by the warm, seductive 

 sun from her winter quarters, to have a last aerial promenade before her 

 long cold nap, has foimd her way into our collections. The morning of 

 Thanksgiving Day here (9th Nov.) seemed to outdo all its fellows in its 

 efforts to charm grumbling mankind, and seemed to insist on every one 

 being thankful and happy. To the lover of flowers the woods provided 

 several autumn blossoms of such flowers as Viola blanda and V. Canadensis^ 

 late blooms of Solidagos, Ac/iil/cea niillcfoliuni, and stunted Asters whose 

 heads had been broken or eaten off by cattle, but who were ^et determined 

 to have their look at the world. Among the damp trees the gauzy-winged 

 male moth of the canker worm could frequently be seen hurriedly flying 

 from tree to tree in search of his wingless wife. On the walls of a house 

 several specimens of the curious little Hammer-headed Fly. Sphyracephala 

 brevicornis, were taken. A fine specimen of Vanessa Miiberti, which came 

 to peer at me by settling within a couple of feet of my head, reminded 

 me of the following, which formerly appeared in the Dublin Penny 

 Journal, and which, as such literature is not at all common, I thought 

 might be entertaining to some of the readers of the Entomologist : 



"At the last meeting of the Entomological Society, Feb'y 5, 1844, a 

 beautiful specimen of Pontia rapce, evidently just disclosed from the chry- 

 salis, was exhibited by l'\ Bond, Esq., which he had captured during the 

 preceding month." 



