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At sugar, although the number of moths taken was large, the 

 variety was very small. In a catch of fifty or sixty moths there 

 would often be but two or three species. Eubolina stylobata was 

 always at these sugar stations in large numbers, also Agrotis in- 

 ' civis, A. vialefida and various species of Homoptera, particularly 

 H. edusina and H. beyiesignata. 



The colony of West Indian insects, of which Mr. Schwartz and 

 others have written, is well represented at Punta Gorda. I found 

 one night resting near a lighted window a beautiful specimen of 

 the "Spanish moth," Enthisanotia timais Cr^m. It bore the 

 bloom of extreme youth, and could not have emerged from the 

 pupa many hours before. It is an exquisite creature, with its 

 fore wings of carmine and orange and secondaries of leaden black. 



I took also one specimen of a Sphingid described and figured 

 by Grote in his "Notes on Cuban Sphingidae (Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 Phil. vol. v)," Hemei'oplanes pseudothyretis. I do not recall its 

 record from Florida previous to my capture, but it should have 

 its place in our lists. It is a curious insect, much like Thyrens in 

 general appearance, but with a peculiar discal mark, like a white 

 arrow-head, with a small white dash above it. Many fine fresh 

 specimens of the large geometer Oxydia vesiiHata Cram, flew to 

 the lighted windows at night. They are exceedingly variable, 

 some very dark purple-brown, some uniformly light grayish drab, 

 and others with median space of pale ochre, but all with the dis- 

 tinctive large, black, diffuse patch on. secondaries, near outer 

 margin. I found also Urapteryx floridata Gr. 



Doubtless many of my unidentified moths will prove to be 

 West Indian forms. Although I found so many interesting spe- 

 cies in Florida this Winter, yet insects were much less plentiful 

 than in ordinary seasons. The long cc)ntinued drought, with one 

 or two severe freezes, interfered seriously with plant and insect 

 life. In a dozen years I have never seen a Winter where butter- 

 flies were so scarce; every one spoke of this, and even the 

 ordinary tourist noticed it. 



ELEMENTARY°ENTOMOLOGY. 



Third Paper — Regions and Appendages of Insects. 

 The Head. 



As stated in the first paper of this series,* the body of a per- 



* Entomological News, i. pp. 70—71. May, 1890. 



