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THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. 
this country, and may well be called rare. It is elegantly 
marked with the Baltimore colours, black and orange, with 
round spots of white. 
C. — Here are two wings of a very large moth, that I 
have just picked up from the ground by the side of the 
road. 
F. — They are the two left wings of a Sphinx, and of a 
remarkably large species : the insect nmst have measured four 
inches and a half in extent of wing. I have never met with 
the species ; its colours are but dull, a plain brown drab ; but 
you see, on the under side of the hind wing is a large cloud 
of dull crimson near the base.* These wings have no doubt 
been snipped off by some bat, or night hawk, which had 
caught the moth : if its body corresponded with its wings, it 
would form a good meal for a bat. 
C. — The Silver-spot Fritillary ( Argynnis Aphrodite ? J is 
becoming common : this is a fine butterfly, for though its 
upper surface is of rather a dull tint, the number and beauty 
of the bright silver spots beneath are sufficient to redeem it. 
jP. — It is a common butterfly throughout the summer ; 
but the Banded Purple makes quite a short stay with us ; 
it becomes very numerous all of a sudden, but by the begin- 
ning of August they have all disappeared, with the occa- 
sional exception of a straggler. 
C. — Among the clover blossoms, hundreds of little Skip- 
pers are dancing in their peculiar jerking way from flower to 
flower. The Yellow-spot ( Pamphila Peckius ) is abundant, 
and another species much resembling it, the Tawny-edged 
Skipper (Pamphila CernesJ, Two new Bombt/ces were 
evolved a few days since from caterpillars taken last fall ; 
one of them is very pretty, the Silver-spotted Buff (Pygcera 
\li is not described in Dr. Harris's recent monograph of the American 
Sphinges. 
