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

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

 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 Aganistlios Orion being found 

 in the States ? Gosse has a drawing of an Hij^parclila 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 larvge, some 

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

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

 and Gf-eometrce 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 fom'teen by 

 ten inches. 



HARRIS TO DOUBLEDAY. 



May, 1840. 



That Limacodes must come somewhere near to Cerura^ does 

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

 rightly placed in the Notodo7itiadce ; but what are the genera 

 connecting Limacodes with the Liparidce ? I do not know at 

 present. The woolly bodies, and the antennae 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 Orggia, 

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



Platgptcryx is too slender-bodied to go with the Bomhyces; 



