SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION 
The first edition of this book having been nearly exhausted in 
less than a month after publication, the author has not yet had 
opportunity to avail himself of the criticisms of scientific friends 
who are presumably looking for sins of omission and commis¬ 
sion, of which it is sincerely hoped they will acquaint him when 
discovered. Thus far all criticisms have been of an approbatory 
character, and have only expressed pleasure. 
The writer is indebted to Mr. Harrison G. Dyar, the Honorary 
Curator of the Department of Entomology in the United States 
National Museum, for reminding him of the fact, which he had 
carelessly overlooked, that the larva and chrysalis of Eumceus 
atala (see p. 237) have been fully described by Scudder, “ Memoirs 
of the Boston Society of,Natural History,” vol. ii., p. 413, and 
by Schwartz, “Insect Life,” vol. i., p. 39. The caterpillar is found 
abundantly upon the “coontie” (Zamici integrifolia, Willdenow), 
and the insect, according to Schwartz, fairly swarms in the pine- 
woods between the shores of Biscayne Bay and the Everglades, 
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