June, 1914] Comstock: Trinidad Erycinid^ and Lyc.enid.e. 153 



no place I have visited can be compared with it for beauty of land- 

 scape. The steamships have to anchor out about 2 miles because the 

 bay is so shallow that they cannot come close to shore. We went 

 ashore in a small steamer and the first thing I did was to catch a 

 tram car and proceed to the Botanical Gardens as I had only about 

 4^ hours to stop there. The sky became overcast shortly before we 

 left the ship and it started to rain ; one of those tropical rains and so 

 heavy w'as it that you could not see a dozen yards in front of you. 

 But it cleared off about 10:30 A. M. Then ilet in hand and cyanide 

 bottles, collecting box, etc., over my shoulder, I was ready for work. 



" The first thing that drew my attention was the number of 

 Lycsenidae that were flying about everywhere. They were mostly of 

 one kind (probably Lyccrna cassiiis, Cramer), but after I went further 

 into woods or forest, for it is practically a forest, one could see butter- 

 flies and skippers of almost every color flitting about. Some were 

 flying about flowers while others have the peculiar habit of lighting 

 underneath the leaf: almost all of the Erycinidje having this habit. 1 

 had been in British Guiana, South America, and away back at a place 

 called Mallali, 175 miles back from Georgetown, and I never saw- 

 butterflies there in such numbers as I saw them in Trinidad consider- 

 ing the short time I had to stay. 



" My time was getting short, but pushing on I noticed a clearing 

 wdiich I thought I would take in. Here I found 15 or 20 different 

 species or varieties, and while I was placing my captures in envelopes 

 I just happened to look at my watch and found that I had just three- 

 quarters of an hour to get down to the wharf and get out to the 

 Dutch mail boat which sailed shortly afterwards." 



This is the list caught on May 5, 1913. 



ERYCINIDiE. 



Limnas jarbas Fabr i pair. 



Charis nilus Felder 3 males. 



Nymphidium molpe Hubner i female. 



Theope herta G. & S i female. 



LYCiENIDJE. 



Thecla palegon Cramer i male. 



Thecla crolus Cramer i female. 



Thecla celmus Cramer i female. 



Thecla beon Cramer i pair. 



