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I inclose you herewith a few Entomological Pins; and if I can learn from any of my correspondents where such pins are to be had in this country, will inform you, so that by sending P.O. stamps, you may by mail or by express obtain a supply - they are so much more nice for this work, than common pins, or needles.
I have not time at present to examine the numbered insects with sufficient care
to give you their names, but will do so hereafter, when I get leisure to study them out. Several of the Lepidoptera, however, which I recognize, I may name for you at once.
No. 293 appears to be a variety of Papilio Asterias, Fab.
290 Terias Lisa, Boisduval - a male.
288 Terias Nicippe Fab. male. The female is a duller colored & paler, & ten times as rare as
287 & 286, five var-[illegible] ^{the male}-ieties of Colias caesoniae Stoll. This species varies to greater
extremes even than in these specimens, some Mexican specimens having the tips of the wings attenuated and falcate. In bright colored specimens, what an exact resemblence
to the profile of a dog's head the yellow color on the fore wings forms! - with the
black dot representing the eye. It ought to be called the dog's head butterfly.
285 Colias Philodice Godart.
284 Colias Edusa? Lin. - or more probably the male of Philodice. Edusa is commonly deep orange yellow.
282 Pieris Protodice, Boisduval, a smallish sized male.
281 Cynthia Huntera Fab.
274 A Hipparchia, probably the Eurytris Cramer - but not certain without closer inspection. A
specimen in the envelopes is the Hipparchia Andromacha, Hubner - having 4 ^equidistant dots in a
row on each fore wing, when Eurytris has only two.
275 A variety of the preceding.
273 Eudamus Tityrus, Fab.
271 Is the Pamphila Bucephalus Stephens, according to a figure of it in Wood's Index - but
Stephens's figure is slightly different, & I suspect there are two species.
262 Saturnia Maia Drury - a fine specimen, for which I am much obliged to you. I have
but two others, one of which I took last Oct. in Mercer Co. Ill., the other was captured in Albany. In Georgia it is very common, in some years. I shall be glad of more specimens