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"karuni" ; although recently felled, the hark of these trees 

 came off easily in large slabs, exposing the inner surface, 

 which was covered with stagnated sap which had attained a 

 condition of slimy fermentation, emitting a strong, acrid odor ; 

 attracted by this a Perodromia, the pattern of whose wings 

 resembled tesselae of malachite and turquoise irregularly 

 veined with black, settled on the trunk and began to imbibe 

 of the liquid sap ; a few moments later there also arrived to 

 the feast a stately Prepona, also of a species which I have 

 been quite unable to find described ; this butterfly, in contra- 

 distinction to the former, sat with its wings folded, displaying 

 the undersides of rich and deep, yet delicate shadings of dres- 

 den brown, cinnamon, russet and olive-gray, pencilled with 

 blue-black and smoky maroon ; very soon these two first com- 

 ers were joined by a butterfly which quickly flew away again 

 and which I took to be a CaUithca, one or two Hesperidae, 

 a large Callidryas resplendent in orange red and orange yellow, 

 and strangely enough a Heliconiits cyrbia which, after taking 

 a few sips, sailed around the spot a few moments displaying 

 its lovely wings of azurite blue, shading to black with crimson 

 bands and white edged hind margins and then, to my great 

 surprise, again alighted on the wet trunk and deposited eight 

 eggs on the viscous timber. Unfortunately a heavy shower 

 of rain now came on and the butterflies were driven away by 

 the downpour. 



The next day, being still in the same locality, I stripped 

 off some more pieces of the bark and again a rather diversified 

 congregation of insects resulted a Zconia, with tails as long 

 as its own iridescent, transparent, scarlet blotched wings ; a 

 few Gynaecia dirce, one or two Catagrammas in golden brown, 

 garnet and carmine, a large Adelpha, which, like the Callithca. 

 however, did not remain long; an Evcnus (rcgalis?) displayed 

 its glorious scintillating, golden-green, peacock-blue and pur- 

 ple banded under surfaces; one of the locally numerous and 

 varied Morphos for a short while settled, slowly opening 

 and closing its great wings of profound, yet radiant blue 

 changing with position to purples, and silvery-green ; and 

 again two unlikely butterflies that strangely enough, oviposited 



