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and several specimens of the parasite Heinitcles thyiidopteryx^ botli 

 male and female. 



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In February I found the pretty iegeria-like Buriia behr Gr. 

 quite plentiful at Punta Gorda. They were flying in the middle of 

 the day among the marsh-grasses near the shore. Their llight is 

 rather sluggish and wavering, and for only short distances. Then 

 they light upon the grass-stalks and cling there. I took many 

 females but only three or four males. I imprisoned several females 

 and secured some eggs and several larvixi. But these last refused 

 to eat the grass I provided and soon died. 



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I took several rare sphingidie in South Florida this season. At 

 light in Punta Gorda in early March I captured a fine specimen of 

 Eucheryx [Fergesa) thorates Hiibner, not recorded hitherto from 

 the United States. It is taken in the West Indies, Mexico and 

 South America. The primaries are a rich olive green, secondaries 

 bright yellow witli dark basal patch and marginal band, a showy 

 insect. At twilight around the blossoms of an orange tree at Lake 

 Worth I took several specimens of the tiny sphin.x Cautcthia grotti 

 Hy. Edwards, and also Aiilopos tantalus Linn, Dilophonota obstura 

 Fab. and D. edivardsii Butl. I found one fine large female speci- 

 men of Rllcina coniferarum S. \: A. resting on the trunk of a pine 

 tree in the day-time, its wings of brownish-gray mimicingthe tints 

 of the rough bark so perfectly that one could with difficulty detect 

 the insect. Enyo Ingiibris was by far the most common sphingid 

 at Lake Worth, coming by scores to blossoms at dusk. 



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At Orniond, on the Halifax river, I fountl in late .NLirch a 

 colony of very handsome and striking larviv. They were feeding 

 upon leaves of that beautiful Florida lily, Pancratium rota turn. 

 They were of velvety black marked with creamy white, head and 

 feet of orange red. The were evidently noctuids but unlike any- 

 thing I had seen. I carried home to the hotel fifteen of them and 

 placed them in a glass-jar with earth at the bottom, 'i'hey fed 

 readily and voraciously and went into the ground a few days later. 

 I secured thirteen pupa2. These I packed carefully and carried with 

 me to New York In just a month from pupation one moth emerged. 

 It was Euthisanotia timais Cram, the "Spanish moth". Of the other 

 twelve pup;i: not one developed. I shall write a more detailed 

 account of larv.v and pupx in the future. 



