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butterfly, conspicuous, at a great distance, from the flashes of blue light 

 reflected from its wings, and apparently closely allied to the magnificent 

 Morplio Menelaus. Amongst a plantation of sweet potato, not far from 

 where I was stopping, I met with a profusion of two Oasaidce, {Mesom- 

 phalia hipustulata, and an undescribed species of PcBcilaspis,) of which 

 the males of one were often seen in copula with the females of the 

 other. Here, too, a species of that truly anomalous genus, Ascalaphus, 

 swarmed over a bush which overhung the river ; and I also captured, in 

 a shady wood, a pretty Tortrix, of about the size and shape of Qarpocapsa 

 pomonana, having the fore-wings black, with fine yellow pencillings, and 

 the hind ones orange, fringed with black. 



Shortly afterwards, on account of a return of the negro's illness, 

 I was again compelled to seek a fixed abode for a few days. In this I 

 soon succeeded, by selecting a large clearing on which stood a deserted 

 hut ; the surrounding ground which had, at no very distant period, been 

 under cultivation, afforded me an abundance of such fruits as plantains, 

 limes, papiios, pine apples, and melons. From over a bed of cassava I 

 took several specimens of an Eunomia, of which the following is an 

 attempt at description: — antennse black, surmounted by a velvetty 

 crest at the middle where they are thickest, the tips pointed ; head and 

 eyes black ; thorax black, with two very conspicuous circular white 

 spots placed between the petagias and the base of the upper wing ; 

 tegulse posterior to the white spots, and produced beyond the post- 

 thorax ; abdomen bright orange, broadly banded with black ; wings 

 hyaline, transparent, and margined with black ; pterostigmata black ; 

 legs also black, exp. alar. 2" 2'" long : corp. 9"'. 



From amongst long grass at the back of our hut, a curious-looking 

 Noctua turned up, a rough description of which may not be out of 

 place: — body and thorax rather slender; of the wings, which are an- 

 gulated, the prevailing colour is ashy-grey, marked by a rich brown 

 shade, which commences faintly below the costa, and, increasing in 

 intensity, terminates abruptly at a straight line drawn from the outer 

 angle of the fore- to the anal angle of the hind-wing, behind which the 

 original grey colour is resumed ; there are also four transverse dentated 

 bands and shades, and the renal stigma which is alone visible is faintly 

 yellow, exp. alar. 1" 8'". 



A week having now elapsed since landing, and my man having 

 sufficiently recovered, we packed up, weighed anchor, and started 

 homewards, halting only when obliged to do so by adverse tide. On 

 one of these occasions, I regret to say, I discovered that a dipterous 



