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secure as many specimens as you please. It is a wide- spread 

 species^ extending from Newfoundland to the Gulf of Mexico, 

 and perhaps farther : in the State of Alabama it is common 

 Another species, the Black Swallowtail (Papilio AsteriusJ, is 

 likewise found in Newfoundland and in the Southern States, 

 in both of which I have found it numerous, and I have seen 

 it mentioned in lists of New England insects, yet I have not 

 met with it in this province. I should suppose, however, 

 that it is a native, but probably, as in Newfoundland, only 

 appears plentifully in particular seasons. 



C. — The other butterflies were the Clouded Sulphur 

 (Colias Philodice), and the Black Skipper (Thymele 

 Brizo ?J. 



F. — The former is very abundant through the summer, 

 and continues till late in autumn ; it is a pretty butterfly; 

 the female, especially : her yellow-spotted black border, and 

 pink fringe, is much more becoming than the plain black 

 of the male. The extent of the black margin on the poste- 

 rior wings differs much in individuals, and there is more vari- 

 ation in size in this species than, I think, in any that I am 

 acquainted with. I once saw an individual which was so 

 pale as to be nearly white : whether it was a distinct species, 

 I don't know. The skipper is not numerous ; three or four 

 specimens being as many as I have usually seen in a season. 

 Its form and colour are not at all pleasing ; it has the habit 

 of all the HespericB, of jumping up and down in its flight 

 over the herbage ; whence these butterflies have derived the 

 name of skippers. What other insects have you observed ? 



C — I went out a day or two ago bush-beating among 

 the willows, but the leaves were too young and small to 

 afford me much success. I shook off a black Sawfly (Ten- 

 thredo), two green Waterflies (Perla Cydippe ?), two Ci- 



mices (Pentatoma f), several ChrysomelidcB, with sofl 



horn-coloured elytra (Crioceris f), and another very 



