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Oleander, and fuffered themfelves to be carried 

 on it to the factory, where I fluck them upon , 

 pins ; but the windows being open in the 

 night, a bat came in and eat them all but the 

 wings. However I got fome afterwards in a 

 little box of infects, which the Ch'mefe bring 

 to fell. Thefe boxes were made of Tya-?nock, 

 and other coarfe wood, without covering, and 

 lined with paper. Such a box full of butter- 

 flies, the Ch'mefe fold at half a piaftre. In 

 the box were about ten or twelve forts, but 

 many of each fort. In their mops are no 

 Hemiptera except Cicada Chinenfis, nor any 

 Coleoptera except Buprejlls maxima. Perhaps 

 it is the opinion of the Ch'mefe, that other in- 

 fects do not ftrike the eye fo much as butter- 

 flies. I feldom found any but butterflies in the 

 fields ; but it is probable that others may be 

 met with in fpring, though they were not via- 

 ble in the other feafons of the year. The 

 butterflies which were expofed to fale in the 

 afore-mentioned boxes were : 



Pap Mo Helena. 



Deiphobus. 



Dijfiniilis, 



* ■ Similis* 



Papi- 



