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ope informed us that it was a tinder box in which smokers carried punk 

 always lighted, the four round holes in the cover allowing it to burn 

 slowly. They were evidently made of plates on which Fgyptian 

 Hieroglyphics real or pretended had been cast — of course the charac- 

 ters would be irregular and were not intended for consecutive reading. " 



It will be observed upon comparing the characters on the several 

 plates that they are identical — stamped by the same dies, having the 

 same disorderly grouping and occasional mutilation. The articles 

 may all have come from the same factory. 



The timely production of the latter specimen must be regarded as 

 most fortunate, as it affords undoubted proof for exposing the fraudu- 

 lent characters of the first named plate. 



E. Foreman. 



Descriptions of New Species of North America 

 Lepidotera. 



Pamphila Rhena. 



Male. — Expands 1.3 inch. 



Upper side pale brown; the basal and discal areas of primaries yel- 

 low fulvous, somewhat reddish along costal margin; the brown border 

 to hind margin embracing about two-fifths the length of the wing; 

 on costal margin beyond cell three small spots, nearly lost in the fulvous 

 ground; stigma long, narrow, a little sinuous, velvet black; secondaries 

 have the middle of disk fulvous, but much obscured by the brown shade; 

 fringes cinereous. 



Under side of both wings yellowish-brown, dusted with yellow 

 scales; the costal area to lower side of cell yellow-fulvous; the sub- 

 apical spots more distinct; the basal portion of submedian inter- 

 space black; on the disk an oblique bar of yellowish spots, undefined 

 and faint; on secondaries a row of small spots upon the disk parallel 

 to margin, of a little lighter shade than the ground, and quite indis- 

 tinct. 



Body above covered with yellow-brown hairs; beneath, the thorax gray 

 and brown; abdomen yellowish; legs fulvous, whitish on inner sides; 

 palpi yellow-white; antennae and club black above, fulvous below; tip 

 of club orange. 



