96 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April 



death, this butterfly has a delicate bluish bloom over the deep 

 rich red of its wings, entirely absent from the dried insect. I 

 have as yet seen but two shabby specimens of Timetes eleucha. 

 I found a pupa under some dock leaves the other day, and 

 from it has just emerged a fine shining golden moth, Plusla 

 verruca. I have seen but one specimen of Composia fidellis- 

 sima this season, nor have I seen Alypia wittfeldii, so common 

 last winter here around the white bur-marigold. 



Skippers {Hesperidoe) are fairly numerous, two or three spe- 

 cies very common. The little P. hayhurstii is everywhere ; 

 Pamphila ethlius is common, and its odd larvae are ruining the 

 cannas in the hotel grounds. Erycides amyntaH is not rare 

 this season. Dr. Dyar discovered its life history here two 

 years ago. Its food plant is Jamaica dogwood {PiHcidia eryth- 

 rina), a shrub or small tree of the Leguminosa'. The most 

 common Lycsena, or ^Mittle blue," is L. amnion. Here, and 

 also at Lake Worth, it is very common, flying all day about 

 flowers in the sunshine. L. Jilenus and L. theonm, the latter 

 having the wings of female white faintly shaded with blue, 

 are not rare. But a few specimens of Thecla acts have as yet 

 appeared, and I have seen only one T. nirirtialis. I have 

 done but little collecting at light this season. The evenings 

 have been too c3ol or too windy as a general thing. As usual, 

 the chocolate brown sphinx, E/iyo luyubrls, is very common, 

 both at flowers in the twilight ^nd at light, while the lovely 

 green sphingid, Pergesa thorates, not yet included in our printed 

 lists, is not uncommon. The larger green Argens lahruHcce is 

 occasionally seen, as is also the still larger sphinx, Puchylia 

 ficus. One very warm still evening this month thousands of 

 small beetles came swarming to the lights. Hundreds of the 

 little water beetle, Helochares ochraceus, came into doors and 

 windows, and many small Scolytids and Longicorns rested on 

 floor of piazza near the electric lights. Last night I took a 

 moth I have never before seen, and which I suppose to be 

 Halisidota strigosa. It is a beautiful insect, with crimson ab- 

 domen tipped with black and thinly scaled brownish wings, a 

 West Indian species. 



(To be Continued.) 



Miami, Fla., February 8th. 



