Diptcra. Here also on Sniilax sj). I tOuiul a )(iun.!^ larva ot 

 lupaiitlicria siribonia and brought it hoine. It throve well on 

 various herbaceous plants, journeyetl with me for a week by rail, 

 fed eagerly on New \'ork lettuce and cabbage, and then came 

 with me to I'ranconia. Here it was so obliging as to eat anything 

 I chose to give it, dandelion, plantain, dock and other homely 

 weeds. It grew enormously large and finally spun a flimsy, gauzy 

 coccoon of silk, i-overe(.l with a _\ell()wish viscid substance and 

 transformed to a large pupa of dull black, just two months from 

 the day found it in Suwanee. The imago appeared twenty-six days 

 later. 



I'nder boards Paaiiiiacliiis siibhevis was common and I found 

 with it two sj^ecimens of Polypleiira nifit/iis. Other beetles found 

 in like situations were Cvnii/n/is plaiiipcnnis, Tctrai:;oiiodcia iiitcrscc- 

 fiis, and Si'/c/iop/ionis palliatus. On the window of my bedroom 

 I took one specimen of Eiiphorticiis piibcscciis ; on the floor of hall 

 the pretty little Diapctcs nihricollis. 



1 went by rail from Suwanee to Charleston, S. C"., and did no 

 collecting en route. At one little station in Florida, just before 

 crossing the Georgia line, a small darkey, seeing me pick up a 

 beetle while the cars waited, offered to collect " dem bugses" for 

 a nickel apiece. I closed with the offer and at the end of ten 

 minutes luul spent a ciuarter and jmrchased five specimens of 

 Strigoi/tr/iia pyx/z/a-d. 'l"he last negotiation was concluded after 

 the train was in motion, the little imp skipping into the car with 

 his struggling prize, dropping it into my lap, seizing the nickel 

 with his grimy, black fingers, and jumping from the train at the 

 risk of fracturing his wool coveretl skull. We spent one day in 

 Charleston. I went down to the Battery in the forenoon, and 

 found a few insects on the grass and trees there. The trees were 

 being devoured by our New York pest Ori,y/<i /ci/i-ostii;iiiii, the 

 larvcv; crawling about everywhere and spinning their cocoons. On 

 blossoms of the yellow medick I took one pair of Col/ops cxiiiiii/s ; 

 on a leaf Gd/mtca ptiiiiticollis and uiukr stones several specimens 

 of Ptcrosticluis sciilptiis, and the ubicpiitous AiiisoJactysiis iiiH^ilts 

 which was abundant everywhere this season. 



I am indebted lo Mr. Charles I.eibeck. Mr. W. J. Fox and 

 Mr. ('. W. Johnson for identifications. 



.My i)aper is already much too long, and, as 1 look over it, 

 seems to have little point. 1 meant however, to call particular 

 attention to what was the marked characteristic of my southern 

 collecting this season, the wonderful scarcity of Lepidoptera. 



