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have series of pura from the far northwest and series from 

 Arizona, which are his .s/ioit'i, and I cannot separate them. 

 Some of the specimens from the northwest have the golden 

 coloration which he mentions and some from Arizona are with- 

 out it. 



The peculiar venation shown in Mr, Crillette's drawing of 

 the elytron of iumidn is a malformation, most other specimens 

 not showing it. 



COLLECTING ON BISCAYNE BAY. 



By Annie Trumbull Slosson. 



I came to Miami this year on January 01 h. The ^veather 

 was very warm when I arrived, but soon grew cooler. It has 

 been very changeable and uncertain since then. We have 

 had much more rain than is usual at this season and many 

 cold nights. On the whole, the conditions have not been fa- 

 vorable for collecting. During the summer over seven thou- 

 sand soldiers were encamped here. Their camp occupied the 

 place of a dense hammock of tropical trees and shrubs, which 

 were cut down and cleared away for this purpose. The growth 

 of vegetation in this climate is almost miraculously rapid. 

 The soldiers left here the last of the Summer, and their former 

 camping ground is now a luxuriant tangle of vines, bushes 

 and plants. Among these I have done the greater part of my 

 collecting this season. The custard-apples (Carica papaya), 

 from four to ten feet high, are covered with their yellow flow- 

 ers, which seem very attractive to butterflies. Catopsilia en- 

 bule and C. agarithe are always hovering over the blossoms, the 

 former hardly to be distinguished from the flowers themselves. 

 Masses of a white bur-marigold {Bidens leucantha) cover the 

 ground, and around these fly hymenoptera, diptera and the 

 smaller butterflies. A tall, shrubby nightshade (Solanum ver- 

 bascifoUum) is now in floAver and fruit, too, and attracts many 

 insects. On its greenish white flowers one often seas the odd 

 long-snouted Brenthid, B. anchorago. I have taken some 

 thirty or forty specimens on these blossoms. A tiny Anlhono- 

 mus is also found on this plant. I took many last season here, 

 and it is just as common now. It is apparently undescribed — 

 unless West Indian, A large purple convolvulus, the cream- 



