LETTEES FROM ALABAMA. 
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setting boardj and I have seen one of the Ghost 
Moths {Hepialidce) j which eject their eggs to a 
distance, immediately on being pinned, begin to 
shoot forth her little black eggs with great rapi- 
dity, as if aware that she had not long to live, and 
anxious to make the most of her time. So, a rather' 
large, but extremely delicate Ephemera^, which 1 
caught about dusk in the garden, a few evenings 
ago, on being pierced, protruded her eggs in a very 
singular manner, not one by one, but all together, 
in two long rolls, stuck side by side, leaving the 
abdomen suddenly empty, or filled only with air. 
In this case the situation was peculiarly inappro- 
priate ; for, at liberty, the fly would have sought 
some pool or stream, and deposited her rolls of 
eggs in the water, of which the genus is an in- 
habitant in its first stages. 
Ever since I arrived in the State, I have ob- 
served a very handsome Locust abundant, I first 
noticed it at Mobile, where specimens were as 
numerous as here ; hitherto they have been only 
in the larva, and a few latterly in the pupa state, 
of various sizes. The colour in these stages was 
glossy black, with stripes of scarlet. About a 
week since, I observed that several had attained 
the imago state, and were become very large and 
thick, the females being as much as three inches 
in length. The parts which before were scarlet, 
are now yellow, namely, the margins of the' abdo- 
minal segments, some dashes on the head, and a 
stripe down the thighs. The wings and wing- 
sheaths are small, and unfit for flight ; the former 
are bright crimson, with a black margin ; the 
latter black, with a beautiful network of crimson 
nervures. The species, which appears to be 
