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Newfoundland, nearly one half an inch in expanse, purple mar- 

 gined and glossed with purple on the coppery disk, like ehryseis, 

 but more beautiful. He also has two blues, one very near to 

 our Argus (from Newfoundland, as the others) . 



Do you know any authority for Aganisthos Orion being found 

 in the States ? Gosse has a drawing of an Hipparchia like 

 Alope, but having only one ocellus in the fulvous spot, and 

 differing in one or two other trivial points. This is from Ala- 

 bama, and probably Pegala Fabr. 



You ask about Abbot's drawings. There are one hundred 

 and forty-nine of Lepidoptera, of which most have larvaa, some 

 have no larvaa, and on these sheets there are usually two or three 

 species. At least one half I do not know. I have the Noctuce 

 and Gfeometrce by me. There are twenty-eight of the former 

 with larvae, none I think published, and of the latter sixteen, 

 none published. Raddon asks fifty pounds for these and about 

 forty plates of Coleoptera. I doubt whether nearly one half 

 are published. They are far more beautifully finished than 

 any other of Abbot's I have seen. The size is fourteen by 

 ten inches. 



HARRIS TO DOUBLEDAY. 



May, 1840. 



That Limacocles must come somewhere near to Cerura, does 

 not seem to me to admit of a single doubt, and Cerura seems 

 rightly placed in the Notodontiadce ; but wdiat are the genera 

 connecting Limacodes with the Liparidce ? I do not know^ at 

 present. The woolly bodies, and the antennsB of some of the 

 latter, seem to me to justify placing Limacodes near to them ; 

 and I have one moth, apparently a Limacodes, or very near to 

 it, which has the fore legs woolly, and porrected like Orgyia, 

 etc., but I cannot doubt that they are approximate forms. 



Platypteryx is too slender-bodied to go with the Bomhyces', 



