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Pieris monuste, Linn. 



My experience with tMs fly is confined to one season. In April, 1876, they 

 were, for about a week, exceedingly abundant in my garden, every flower being 

 crowded with them. Since then I have never seen the fly alive. All that were 

 observed at that time were of the smoky variety. Monuste was formerly re- 

 ported as abundant around Magnolia Cemetery. 



Pieris rapse, Linn. 



With a specimen of this butterfly my collection was commenced. I remem- 

 ber the eagerness with which, as an embryonic collector, I had awaited the 

 coming of Spring. Through the Winter I had made what seemed to me most 

 extensive preparations for starting businebs as a Lepidopterist. In the course 

 of a ramble through the kitchen garden, which for a long time constituted my 

 hunting ground, I had been made happy by the discovery, in an angle of the 

 wall, of a chrysalis, the first I had ever seen. After a grave consultation with 

 my books on Entomologj^ consisting of Duncan's volumes on that science, 

 contained in the ' ' Naturalist's Library, " the determination was reached that it 

 must be the pupa of the " Cabbage Butterfly," and I can still feel the sense of 

 desolation and despair that came and dwelt with me when the chrysalis finally 

 succumbed to my too assiduous attentions. (It had roasted before the fire 

 where it had been placed in the vain hope that the warmth would prematurely 

 dislodge the occupant. ) And the memory of the Spring morning when the 

 first butterfly of the season was seen fluttering among the cabbages in the gar- 

 den, and of the thrill of delight which followed its capture, causes Pieris rafpm 

 to have a warm place in my regard. 



With the exception of Pieris monuste, as before noted, this is the only rep- 

 resentative of its family that I have ever seen around Charleston. Pieris pro- 

 todice, Bdl., LeC, is by some authors caUed the Southern Cabbage Butterfly, 

 with the exception, however, of one specimen seen in Birmingham, Ala., in 

 Oct., 1887, I have never seen it in the South, though I used to get it common- 

 ly around Princeton, N. J., of course I speak only of my own personal obser- 

 vation. 



MARCH 28th, 1889. 

 Vice-President H. P. Archer in the Chair. 



JBooks JReceived. 

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