moths as I noticed in Florida this spring, and I hear from other 

 parts of the south of the same scarcity. Though I watched the 

 lights carefully every night I saw very few moths, on most even- 

 ings not a single one. I found two or three specimens of Harvcya 

 aitripeniiis, and Paiiopoda canieicosta on the walls near lights, one 

 Arctia michabo, one Faro/xya sp., a Crocota sp. three or four of the 

 smaller Geometridas antj a few Pyralids — actually nothing more. 

 Hut in other orders I found many rarities. Beautiful dragon 

 tlies — the " snake doctors " of the colored folk — abounded along 

 the streams and would have delighted Dr. Lamborn by the way in 

 which they caught and devoured unwary mosquitoes. I had the 

 pleasure of adding from here to Mr. Calvert's wonderful collection 

 of Odonata, two species previously lacking, Hageiiiiis brcvistyliis^ 

 a very large species, black and yellow with smoky wings, and 

 Goniphus dilatatiis, a singular looking insect with long slender 

 abdomen, widely dilated at ape.\. Libellitla axillcna with gay, 

 spotted wings was abundant, as were also L. aiiripcniiis, Ischiiitra 

 rambi/rii and Anontala^^rion Jiastatiiin. In the wood paths were 

 flying many " bee-flies " (Bombylidi^). I took Anthrax liicifcr a 

 fine large fly with body covered with yellow hair and dark smoky 

 wings tinged with fulvous ; A. fiilvohirta, A. agrippiiia, A. sinuosa^ 

 Sysiocc/iiis solitiis, and the pretty little Oncodoccra /aiicoprocta, with 

 body of black velvet, just tipi)ed with snowy white. A big 

 " robber-fly " Proctacanthus brevipcnnis was also flying in these 

 same paths and Cicindela itnicolor was abundant. There were 

 many Scarabaeidae, several looking as if any one of them might 

 have sat for the portrait of the '* tumble bug " on the cover of our 

 Journal. I found Canthon hcvis, C. depressipennis^ Onthaphagus 

 tuberculifrons, Cop r is Carolina^ Aphodius stercorosus, A. sp., Atcenius 

 cyliiidri/s, and A. cog/iati/s. On the scrub oak I took Cryptocephalus 

 fuhnpe finis, and C. beviiis, besides most of the species taken in 

 same situation at Pensacola. Running on mud near the water I 

 found that graceful little creature Ega sai/ei, the first time I had 

 encountered it. 



Not far from the hotel, on each side of the hoi se car tracks 

 leading from station, were grassy pine flats where grew many 

 lovely flowers. The butterfly-pea {Clitoria mariaiid) is one of the 

 most charming of the Leguminosai, a twining plant w'th trifoliate 

 leaves and large peablossom-like flowers of pinkish purple. 

 Around these and the blossoms of Ainsonia, Psoralt-x lupinellus 

 and Andromeda spcciosa, I captured Obcrea gracilis and O. ocellata^ 

 AmpJiionycJia fiammata, Lema texana and many Hymenoptera and 



