BY EDWARD DOUBLh^DAY. 279 



I expected to have found many Cetoniites in the flowers, but 

 met with one only, Cetonia fulgida ; the others are from 

 rotten wood. When the Viburna were out, there were Lep- 

 turce, Pachytcs, Clyti, and Mordellw on them ; with these ex- 

 ceptions, I found very few beetles on flowers. 



In Orthoptera there are countless myriads of grasshoppers 

 in some sandy situations, but they were all in the larva and 

 pupa state, till just as I left Mr. Moore's. There is one large 

 species, very common, with a yellow margin to its under wings; 

 when flying it looks exactly like Vanessa Antiopa : it has a 

 habit of hovering in the air like a kestril. 1 saw another 

 species at Troy and Little Falls, which, as it flies, repeatedly 

 cries '* click, click." The hot rocks about Little Falls seem 

 a great place for grasshoppers, but the number of species 

 appears to be but small. The Forfcukv (earwigs) seem alto- 

 gether unknown here (at Trenton), but I found one near Cin- 

 cinnati, and I took a specimen of Labia ^nhior at William 

 Clark's farm, at Wanborough. There are Blattce (cock- 

 roaches) beneath the rotten bark, and Aclietw in profusion 

 under stones, but they were all larvae. The absence of ear- 

 wigs, as well as of snails and slugs, is a happy thing for the 

 gardener. 



As to Neuroptera, Trenton is by no means a good locality 

 for them, there being no stagnant water. I saw one or two 

 jEschnw, but could not get them ; aI§o one species of Libel- 

 lula^vf\\\\ clouded wings, and one or two species ol Sympetrum. 

 I only saw one Calepteryx over the river, and this I could 

 not get. In the box first sent you will find one or two 

 large things like Perla, {Pteronarcys Proteus,) and one or 

 two smaller ones {Isogenus frontalis) ; also two allied genera 

 which fly to the candle {ChauUodes p)ectimcornis and Merope 

 tuber). You will also see in the box two or three Panorpites, 



one of them {Bittacus •?) so like a. Pedicia or Tiptda, that, 



while flying, I quite supposed it to be one. I took it in a dark 

 shady wood. The Pkryc/anites are not numerous. On the 

 31st of October I walked along the rocks up to the fourth fall. 

 I could not venture beyond, as a shelving ledge of limestone, 

 about four inches wide and covei-ed with ice, offered too 

 slippery a footing. It was a glorious day, — the sun bright 

 and calm. The frost had spread a white mantle over the 

 trees within reach of the spray: from the " Shower-bath-rock" 



