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portions of llie several genera of butterflies, as far as I have been able to obtain 

 them, up to this time, and as well as I can make out the number of species: — 



Papilio .... 3 Euploea ... 1 



Colias .... 1 Acraea .... 2 



Pieris . ... 3 Polyonimatus ... 8 



Anthocharis ... 1 Chrysophanus . . .1 



Erebia . . . .3 Zeutis .... 7 



Mycalesis (?) . . . 1 Thymele .... 2 



Euryteia .... 1 Steropes ... 2 



Cynthia .... 1 Paraphila .... 2 



Philognomes . . .1 ? ... 2 



Salamis .... 1 



" Of moths I have upwards of 120 species, of which GeometraB and Pyrales form 

 the greater proportion ; of Sphingidee I have but live species, one Syntomis, two 

 Anthrocera, one Smerinthus and one Troohilium. Sugar does not seem to succeed 

 here in attracting them ; I sugared twice without the least success, and the third time 

 only found two moths, on sugared flowers. Light succeeds well on certain nights, and 

 I have obtained a good many in that way. 



" November 19. It has been very warm all the week and insects are visibly increasing 

 in numbers every day. I have taken another Anthocharis (I think Danae), Danais 

 Chrysippus, a beautiful Zygaena, intermediate between Procris and Syntomis, &c. 



" My collection of beetles comprises about ninety species of larger size and a good 

 number of small species. The Lamellicorns constitute the most numerous section of 

 the Coleoptera here, and many of the species are very curious and striking in their 

 appearance. The whole district is overrun by numbers of juvenile green and black 

 locusts, which hang in hundreds on the shrubs and plants, and strip them of their 

 leaves and young shoots in a very short time. The day before yesterday I saw a 

 Bittacus (of a species veiy common here) carrying a large fly along by one of its hind 

 tarsi : the fly had evidently been abstracted from a spider's web, as it was wrapped in a 

 webby shroud. 



" It is worthy of remark how few species of Lepidopterous larva I can find ; 

 I imagine the greater number of them must feed at night, or high up on the 

 trees. 



" December 5. — T am going to morrow to some large woods near at hand to endea- 

 vour to obtain some wondrous butterflies I have been informed of; they hnve, according 

 to my informant (an observant old farmer), ' hard wings ' which ' snap' when they fly ; 

 they keep entirely within the forests, and are found sucking the sap from the Polygalas 

 that grow there: I thought of Cicadae, and suggested them to my informant, but he 

 knew the latter well, and insisted that those he meant were butterflies ; and that there 

 were several kinds, all large, and one with two tails on each hind wing. The only one 

 I have in my descriptions as possessing two tails on each wing is Charaxes Xiphseus ; 

 it is probably that species. 



" December 13. — I have been out to-day in the woods, from 8 a m. to 3 p.m., but 

 although I visited the express woods mentioned by my informant, I saw nothing of 

 the ' snap-wing' butterflies he described; indeed, though a splendid hot day, I saw 



