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ulice^ I Culices. He will have it that Culices are only called 

 mosquitoes by the English and English Americans, and Walker, 

 on Schomburgh's authority, says they are called zancudos by the 

 Spaniards, and Simulim mosquitoes. Now I do not believe this 

 at all. If you look in the last Diccionario of the Spanish Acad- 

 emy, you will see raofiqmtoe rendered Culex pipiens, and zancudo 

 only longipes. Pray what is the very little sand-fly, midge or 

 punky, of different parts of the States, which by river sides in 

 the south, especially towards the sea, swarms by millions, 

 enough to make one believe the stories we get from Hungary 

 about their choking men and cattle ? The same, or an allied 

 species I found, or rather they found me, by thousands, on the 

 hills south of Olean, N. Y. ; but the most I ever saw were on 

 the St. John's and Savannah rivers. They never were found 

 far from shore. 



As the word mosquitoe is Spanish, surely the Spaniards are 

 the best judges as to what insect it belongs. I maintain we 

 are right in following them, and the Germans are wrong, and 

 Newman wrong in following the Germans, as he does in his 

 grammar. 



DOUBLEDAY TO HARRIS. 



EpplNci, Oct. 19, 1841. 



Our success this year in capturing Lepidoptera has been 

 owing very much to adopting a plan first brought to notice 

 by Mr. Selby of Bedford, — brushing over the trunks of trees 

 near our house with sugar. Every tolerably fine evening, a 

 row of* lime trees in one of our fields is sugared well for three 

 or four feet from the ground, and in addition, boards similarly 

 sugared are put out in a little plantation at the bottom of 

 another field. Twice or thrice before nine or ten o'clock, my 

 brother visits these with a lantern, and some nights takes a hun- 

 dred moths. He also occasionally sends a boy into the woods to 



