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woods near Savannah, rare." I lioj^e 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 0. brun- 

 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 Linn, and Fabr., al- 

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

 on the 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 know the two, but cannot make out Kirby's de- 

 scription. 



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

 about your Sesice. I have not Sesia diffinis 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 Pelasgus, but 

 more like that than diffinis. I think it is noi\\.\Yhjsruficaudis: 

 On going over the British Museum Noctuidce, I have been 

 struck with the large numbers that have crept into our English 

 catalogues. Amongst these are GraphipJwra subrosea Steph., 

 Hadena arnica Steph. (not of Ochs.), one or two Plusice, JEu- 

 phasia eatmna Steph., Scolopus Inops Steph., Acontia nigrirena 

 Steph., OjiJiiusa girmdirena Steph., etc. Most of these I have. 

 A few, as the hcantiful Uuphasia catoina (Acontia cata^na Cwxt.^, 

 I have not. There are two specimens of tliis 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- 



