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few, so send you only two of it. My Thecla, 28, seems to be 

 the acis of Drury. 



When at Charleston, I observed on the branches of Cupres- 

 sus ihyoides a number of cocoons composed of silk, intermixed 

 with fragments of the shoots of the Cupressus. There were 

 hundreds on some trees. Within was a white larva, as of some 

 internal feeder. Tlie first thoracic segment horny, the two 

 anterioi' pairs of legs small, the third larger ; prolegs very small. 

 None of those I saved turned, but Dr. Bachman gave me the 

 perfect insect, and what should I find out since my return that 

 it is but the Sphinx ephemerceformis of Haworth, Thyridop- 

 teryx epheinerceformis of Stephens (Ent. Soc. Trans., Vol. 1). 

 [See beyond, Harris to Miss Morris, Sept. 25, 1850.] 



Children has another Alyjna from Nova Scotia. I will try 

 and describe this and my JEgeria and Trochilhim in Charles- 

 worth for May. Is your Troch. tipuliforme reaHy ours ? 



And now to go on to the Bombyces. Is Boisduval's (in 

 Gudrin) Sericaria sanceceps the same as Drury's ministra, Vol. 

 II, pi. xiv, fig. 3? Of the Arctia Lccontei of Boisd. (Gu^rin, 

 Icon. R. A.) I have all manner of varieties ; your militaris is 

 another one. The white spots becoming confluent in a differ- 

 ent manner, will account for all these variations. I have 

 made out a difference in the species so close to our Caja, which 

 will serve to distinguish it. 



You inquire about the habits of Ctenuclia semidiaphana. I 

 took it in September in Illinois on flowers, especially on the 

 different species of jSolidago, flying by day. Again I took it in 

 Florida by night, for they used to fly to my lamp. I do not 

 remember to have taken one by day there, ^geria omplmle I 

 took once at night, once flying by day in a sunny spot in the 

 midst of a thick hummock. 



