THE LEPIDOPTERIST 



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but it surely should be given the standing of a sub- 

 species. It is much larger than juglandis and the 

 male is of a greenish-brown color, while the females 

 we received from Florida localities are of a whitish- 

 yellow color. That night our collecting was rounded 

 up with the capture of several specimens of 

 Psychidae, apparently all belonging to the same 

 species (not yet identitied), and we went to bed 

 with very optimistic hopes and worrying whether 

 we should have enough boxes to pin all the specimens 

 we surely expected to tind around the lights during 

 our two weeks' stay. But when our time was over 

 we found to our disappointment that the first 

 night was the best collecting night we had had. All 

 along the coast of the Indian River insects were 

 swarming to the lights only with west winds, which 

 do not prevail till June. We had mostly cool east 

 wind with an occasional southeast and light-collect- 

 ing, therefore, remained very poor indeed. 



The next morning after we had eaten our first 

 genuine Florida breakfast we started day-collecting 

 with the inspection of the orange groves back of 

 our hotel. It is true, we did not look for butterflies 

 at once, for our eyes rested on the trees covered 

 with beautiful oranges and grape fruit. Recalling 

 the New England farmer who drives boys out of his 

 orchard with a shot-gun when they dare to take an 

 ai)i)le, and not being familiar with southern hospitality, 

 Mr. ReifT hesitated very much about eating what the 

 trees offered. It took Mr. Cassino the time of eating 

 three oranges to convince him that certain things for 

 which one may be shot or jailed in the North are 

 perfectly legitimate in the South. It must have been 

 a good doctrine, for oranges and graj^e fruit were 

 eaten by us thereafter in vast quantities. 



There were not many species of butterflies in the 

 groves nor elsewhere, as we found out later, but 

 those we did see were represented in most cases 

 by many specimens. The most abundant species 

 were Papilio cresphontes, palamedes, ajax, Catop- 

 silia eubule, two species of Cissia (Neonympha) and 



