1899] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 95 



white moonflower, periwinkles both piiik ami white, a spurge 

 with its desp gr33:i Igive? oddly marked with blood-red, capsi- 

 cum, or red pepper, with purple flowers and scarlet berries, 

 these and many m >re make this jungle a bright and fragrant 

 spot. Among these tropical plants one finds some strangers 

 now which seem quite out of place. Seeds scattered by the sol- 

 diers while hero have sprung up and tomatoes, melons, 

 squashes, potatoes, Indian corn and other homely though 

 useful wanderers from the kitchen-garden grow here 

 placidly among the brilliant exotics. And the tropical 

 insects accept them calmly and adopt them as food plants. 

 I have found the pretty chrysomelid, Lema solan i, which 

 have fed hitherto on the wild nightshades here, eating the 

 tomato now, while different insects of the tiny wild gourd 

 i Mi'lothr'm jinnhi/n ) transfer their affections to its country 

 cousins, the watermelon and squash. Insects are good bota- 

 nists. The black nightshade (Solatium niynan) is plentiful 

 here, as elsewhere, and has many insects on and about it. The 

 pretty little II - 1 b 'tie, Ejltrix i> IITH'IU, abounds on this plant. 

 A larga Hemipter, a yellowish brown bag, tipzi'tocera diffuxtt, 

 is always found on it, too, while a dainty little "hopper," 

 of brilliant green and black, Acutalis sp., lives on the stem and 

 leaves. The handsome day-flying moth, Syntomeida <']>i/(tix, 

 with wings of metallic green, spotted with white, and blue, 

 red -tipped body, is common now among the flowers, while the 

 tiny N. iniiiliiri. its copy in miniature, is occasionally seen, and 

 I have taken one specimen of N. ii><nn.e<r, with its brilliant body 

 striped with orange and black. The little melon moth, with 

 white transparent wings bordered with dark brown, has already 

 found out the introduced melons and flies among the vines by 

 hundreds. The large cabbage butterfly, P. i>i<nnixfi' : its daint- 

 ier cousin of pearly white, Trht/rix i/oirr, YVrms- iiiripjic, of 

 deep orange, the striped zebra, Ht'linniiuv rli'irifimiii* ; the p.is. 

 sionilouer butierlly, Agraulis vanillce ; the richly tinted AIHKI 

 j>:>rtia, and, m >sl plentiful of all, the pretty little Kumrnui 

 alula, called hole the '" < 'omptie fly." A II t hese lovely winged 

 creat nres kn:i\\ I he soldiers' descried camping ground and visit 

 it in the sunshine. The Airi i found here, and which I have 

 distributed under t lit- naiii" of ti-nr/litili/ln. is, 1 am assured, the 

 \Vest Indian />!! I'\i'). In lif.-, and for a few honr> after 



