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dorsal stripe of a buff, or dull flesh-color, each stripe of about equal diameter, 
(nearly 0.04 inch on middle joints) forming narrower, paler lines on the plates and 
nearly converging on the anal plate; a similar but somewhat broader substigmatal 
stripe which is wavy below; between sub-dorsal and stigmatal stripes a faintly indi- 
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sub-polished, faintly translucent, pale dingy-olive, the jaws, and som 
mouth-parts, darker. Legs and prolegs of same pale olive color, the latter with a 
black band at outer base. Stigmata black. 
he young larva is green but early shows the pale stripes. When about one third 
grown the general hue is olive-green with the cervical and anal plates but little darker. 
The head is pale, greenish, faintly freckled and with a few dark hairs; the suture: 
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he narrower supra-stigmal line are very pale, greenish- 
yellow, the broader sub-stigmatal stripe of a clearer cream-yellow with a faint car- 
int. 
hown to me when full grown by the pale, immaculate head (recalling cofal) and the 
polished, bronzy or umber color of body. The upper strives are often obsolete or sub- 
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Micration OF BurrerFLies.—Under date of June 2, Dr. J. H. 
Mellichamp, of Bluffton, S. C., sends the following interesting 
day and to- ay. Savannah (Ga.) is west or south west of this place, and I am in- 
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ae at a long distance, and they come along in twos, and threes, and fours and 
tise m a greater number—going steadily east or north-east—seldom stopping 
. a darkey would say!), but occasionally alighting on a weed, or 
me th shy and wary and very difficult to capture. A colored man said to 
stand ghey came in his field “like a swarm of bees,’ and that he “ just pongias 
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and came See my ft never saw such a thing in my life,”’—-and so droppe . 
CLASSIFICATION OF THE Mires.—In a recent letter Dr. G. Hal- 
ne : Bern, Switzerland, already well known through his studies 
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