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them over to Mr. Bridgham who wrote me as follows: "I separated 

 the eggs into two lots and endeavored to retard their hatching as 

 much as possible. One set I kept in as cool a place as I dared, and 

 the rest in a room without heat. They all hatched however within 

 a few hours of each other. Despite my efforts I lost many in the 

 early stages, but have succeeded in raising fourteen to what should 

 be their last stage before going into cocoon. They are very large 

 and handsome. I feed them on lettuce and keep them constantly in 

 the dark and in a large airtight box. They feed continually in the 

 dark and the exclusion of air keeps the food from becoming dry, 

 w'hile there is yet sufficient air for their support." He then goes on 

 to describe the larvoe briefly in the various stages and adds : " I have 

 drawn them in six stages and shall add another figure life size." A 

 fortnight later he wrote: "It is rather mortifying to have to confess 

 that I did not succeed in bringing any of my larvoe to perfection. 

 They fed well and grew large but failed to go into chrysalis." Mr. 

 Henry Edwards and I were more successful, however, and our 

 descriptions were published later. > 



In 1890 I took at Miami several specimens of a small white moth, 

 quite new to me. I sent one of these to Professor Packard, who was 

 much interested in it. He wrote later : " I have been working over 

 the beautiful and most interesting moth you so kindly gave me. 

 Have you the other sex, a female? Singularly enough the late 

 Professor Poey gave me a female of an allied large species from 

 Cuba and I would like to see a female of your species before pub- 

 lishing results. It is a new genus of Limacodid moths which I shall 

 call Eupocya, naming your species E. slossoiiiar if you will allow me. 

 I have the cocoon of the Cuban form. It is snow white." 



This moth was afterwards placed by Dyar in the genus Calybia 

 Kirby. I am not sure whether it has remained there, for our insects 

 are often wanderers with no abiding place in the changing world of 

 catalogues and lists. Mr. Dyar studied the species in Florida from 

 egg to image and wrote an interesting paper concerning it, with 

 illustrations in N. Y. Jour, of Entomology, Vol. V. 



An amusing incident concerning his study of the species is not out 

 of place here. I was in Florida while Mr. Dyar was there and he 

 had showed me the curious larvse feeding on mangrove and the 

 chalky white cocoons. He left the place before I did, taking with 



