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yet been recorded. Often when I have been insect huntin": 

 on a July evening, I have found this Atychia asleep on 

 flowers, and in consequence of the coolness of the evening 

 and the influence of the dew, with the wings quite red, nearly 

 of the same colour which we find in A. Sepium. If I took 

 these red specimens in my hand, the red colour gradually 

 disappeared as the insects became warm, and in a short time 

 they were as green as we always see them in the sunshire. 

 The influence of cold and moisture on the green colour of 

 these insects merits a careful investigation. It must at any 

 i-ate be different with those species of which the green colour 

 disappears irrevocably. Probably by chemical investigations 

 of Atychia Statices, we might obtain information on the 

 specific distinctness of Atychia Sepium. 



