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State, aside from the Heterocera, are likely to wait apace. Among- 

 the moths I believe some new and beautiful varieties are still 

 awaiting description. Arkansas offers a most inviting field for 

 the lepidopterist. The common moths that are about our houses 

 are emerging already these early days in January. Not many 

 weeks hence we will see archippus and P. rapce lazily flitting 

 about over gardens and hedges. The earliest D. archippus seen 

 last season was on March 12, while on the 17th following a school 

 girl picked up by the road-side a superb specimen of Deilephila 

 lineata. It would be hazardous to say how many broods of P. 

 rapa emerge between March and December, and the same applies 

 to not a few other species. I observed P. rap(B pairing as late 

 as December ist. In the midst of so much that invites the ento- 

 mologist in Arkansas, it is almost disheartening to see the few 

 engaged here in the study. Aside from the force at the Experi- 

 ment Station at Fayetteville, I do not know of a single worker or 

 collector in the State. In the face of so little local study and 

 investigation it may be rash to say there are no new diurnals 

 here. The appended list is, therefore, only a partial one, the 

 captures being chiefly on the streets and gardens of Little Rock, 

 or in the immediate environs : 



P. turmis. Pamphila phylaeus. 



P. cresphontes. Terias lisa. 

 P. rapcE. " nicippe. 



P. protodice. Nathalis iole. 



C. eury theme. Phyciodes phaon. 



C. philodice. Theclapoeas. 

 G. inter rogationis . Lycaena alee. 



G. comma. " com,yntas. 



G. progne. Euptoeita claudia. 



L. Ursula. Pyrameis huntera. 



D. portlandia. Neonym^pha sosybius. 

 P. troglodyta. Apatura clyton. 



D. archippus. Apatura var. proserpina. 



J. coenia. Pyrgus syrichtus. 



Pamphila accius. Pholisora catullus. 



The last fourteen were identified through the courtesy of Dr^ 

 Skinner, editor of Entomological News. 



