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woods near Savannah, rare." I hope before long to examine 

 these books very fully, and will report more at length. At 

 any rate, they are a treasure. They were originally Francil- 

 lon's, and were purchased by the British Museum. They have 

 also in the Museum many Lepidoptera of Abbot's collecting, 

 some recently purchased at Milne's sale. 



Newman has just had a box of insects from the Cape of 

 Good Hope, in which is a Cetonia, closely allied to your C. hrun- 

 nea Dej. Now is not this African species the true Indus, and 

 your American one a distinct species ? I think there can be 

 no doubt that yours is not the Indus of Lmn. and Fabr., al- 

 though I am well aware of the little dependence to be placed 

 on tiie habitats given by either. India means, I judge, any- 

 where out of Europe.' 



I told you that Argynnis Cyhele and Aphrodite were two 

 species. I loiow the two, but cannot make out Kirby's de- 

 scription. 



I have another thing to tell you; I have been mistaken 

 about your Sesim. I have not Sesia dlffinis of Boisduval. I 

 had not looked at his figure, and concluded that a specimen I 

 took at Trenton Falls was it, but find it quite distinct. Abbot 

 has drawn all. The one I have is smaller than Pelasr/us, but 

 more like that than diffinis. I think it is not Kirby's ruficaudis. 

 On o-oino- over the British Museum Mctuidce, I have been 

 struck with the large numbers that have crept into our English 

 catalogues. Amongst these are Graphipliora suhrosca Steph., 

 Hadena arnica Steph. (not of Ochs.), one or two Plusiw, Eu- 

 pJiasia catcena Steph., Scolopus Imps Steph., Acontia nigrirena 

 Steph., Ophiusa grandirena Steph., etc. Most of these I have. 

 A few, as the beautifid Eupliasia catcena {Acontia catcena Curt.), 

 I have not. There are two specimens of this in the British 

 Museum, from Abbot. It is something like Eudryas unio, — 

 white, anterior wings with two olivaceous marginal spots and a 

 discoidal one, with a broad lilac border, in which, near the mar- 

 gin, are several sub-ocellated white spots ; posterior wings whit- 



