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oouutiy like the United States would allow these monuments of Central America to decay 

 away, day by day, and make no effort to secure and save them from ruin. Whilst hundreds 

 of thousands of dollars are annually squandered, publicly and privately, for follies and worse 

 than follies, not a movement is made or a dollar appropriated to obtain these relics of a past 

 race ; each day time passes his hand with a sharper sweep over the graven record, and long 

 ere some Gliddou may appear to find the key thereto, the characters in which that record is 

 sculptured will have been entirely effaced ; what a sad commentary on a mighty nation — on a 

 great government; thousands are criminally wasted in schemes for self-aggrandizement by 

 those in high positions of honor and trust; all is "rottenness and foul corruption," from the 

 meanest to the highest serf, all preying on the resources of the nation, with no thought for 

 aught that is noble or good. 



That our government does not make some move towards purchasing and removing to 

 some place of safety at least a portion of these memorials of a grand past is matter of equal 

 astonishment and regret ; the idols or columns are all of a size that is manageable, and if not 

 too many incorruptible officials are to be feed by the bidders for the contract of removing and 

 transporting them, the expense would not materially affect the financial stability of the country ; 

 that they could be purchased from the resident claimants, if their be any such, I do not think 

 there is much doubt, as a dollar doubtless attains to a most respectable magnitude in Central 

 America. But I suppose it is folly to ever hope to see anything of the S(n-t accomplished, as 

 ere government could possibly arrange all preliminaries and the countless men in place 

 who took an interest in the matter, receive each the perquisites for selling out the various con- 

 tracts for transportation, pins, sailors, sugar, laborers, assistant engineers, envelopes, crowbars, 

 assistants for laborers, milk, sealing-wax, ice, rollers, chief engineers, servant's assistants, 

 derricks, red-tape, &c., &c., &c., Ac, &c., either some other country will have secured and 

 removed these wonderful remains, or time will have accomplished the work of destruction. 



COLIAS DIMERA. Doubleday, Hewitson. 



Doubl. Hew. Gen. D. L. 9. Fig. 3 J*. ( 1847. ); 



C. Erjthrogranima, Koll. Denkschr. Akad. "Wiss. Wien, Math. Nat,. CI. I. p. 363. n. 34. t. 45, Fig. 13, 

 14. (1850.) 



C. vSemperi, Beakirt. 



Female. Expands li inches. 



Antennte and head rose colored ; thorax black above with yellow hairs; abdomen black 

 above; yellow below. 



Upper surface, primaries orange, tinged with black at base ; a broad black marginal 

 band prolonged far inwards on veins ; two yellow spots in this band near the apex, discal dash 

 sagittate and joined to the marginal band by a black streak ; costa and ciline rosy. 



Secondaries, lemon yellow with some black scales at base and narrowly bordered with 

 black from outer angle to middle of margin, the black extending some distance up the veins ; 

 discal spot orange and elongated outwardly in a line almost to the marginal band ; cilite rosy. 



