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silvery colour crossed with darker bands, while the outer half varies from a dull tawny 
to dark brown, which is frequently tinged with a steely blue. The silvery band crossing 
the wings is always present. Cramer’s figure represents a dark variety +. 
We once witnessed a migration of this species near San Gerénimo in Guatemala. 
We were riding one afternoon down the mountain-side skirting the plain of Salama, 
when we met thousands of this species, which were flying with the wind along the hill- 
side. All were going in the same direction, which took them to the higher ranges of 
this district, and beyond into the valleys of the Polochic and Motagua. 
10. Timetes coresia. 
Nymphalis coresia, Godt. Enc. Méth. ix. p. 359°. 
Megalura coresia, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 345°. 
Marpesia zerynthia, Hibn. Samml. ex. Schmett. ii. t. 51°. 
Alis anticis hamatis, velutino-brunneis marginibus externis rufescentibus linea submarginali fusca, subtus linea 
rufa, extus valde sinuosa et nigro marginata bisectis, dimidio proximo albo, lineolis tribus fulvis trans- 
fasciatis, dimidio distali sericeo-fusco, lineolis submarginalibus rufis et nigris notatis. 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Hége); Guatemaua, Polochic valley (Ff. D. G. & O.8.); 
Nicaracua, Chontales (Belt); Costa Rica (Van Patten®), Caché (Rogers); Panama 
Chiriqui (Champion), Veraguas (Arcé).—Co.omsia ; Ecuapor; Peru; Bouivia; Braziu!. 
T. coresia may readily be distinguished by the uniform rich chocolate colouring of 
its upperside, which contrasts strongly with the silvery base of the wings beneath, 
and makes it a conspicuous insect. ‘There is nothing similar to it in the disposition of 
its markings. 
It frequents clearings and second-growth woods and the banks of streams in the dry 
season, and is often found about sugar-factories, resorting to the bruised cane after 
the juice has been recently extracted. 
c. Primaries short, sharply falcate; anal lobe of secondaries obsolete. 
11. Timetes iole. 
Papilio iole, Drury, I. Nat. Hist. iii. t. 38. f. 2°; Stoll, Suppl. Cr. t. 29. £4, 4d”, 
Megalura iole, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 346°. 
Alarum dimidio proximo saturate fulvo, dimidio distali nigro, area discali purpureo tincta ; subtus fusco-ferru- 
gineis, lineolis variis valde sinuatis notatis. 
Q alis ad basin obscure fulvis lineis nigris distincte transfasciatis, triente apicali fusco-nigra maculis sex ad 
apicem notata. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt, Janson); Costa Rica (Van Patten*); Panama, 
Bugaba (Champion), Chiriqui, Veraguas (Arcé).—CoLoMBIA; VENEZUELA. 
This Timetes is said by both Drury! and Stoll? to inhabit Jamaica. At present, 
however, we have it from the mainland alone, where it does not appear to be found 
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