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side that at once recalled the European Argynnis lathonia, Linn. ; 

 even more attractive was the essentially Ned-tropical Nyinphaline, 

 My&celia cyaniris, Hew., grey with white stripes, shot with brilliant 

 violet— conspicuous as this looks in the cabinet it is by no means as 

 conspicuous when sitting, as it is fond of doing, on light grey bark ; 

 a black, white, and red Butterfly seen fluttering at the bottom of 

 a ditch turned out to be a male of the truly exquisite Papilio euri- 

 medes, Cram., perfect in shape and finish, and with a marvellous blue 

 gleam in certain lights ; less striking than the last was an unusually 

 small female of its soberly coloured congener, P. polydamas, Linn. ; 

 lastly, there were two Skippers peculiar to that lane, viz. : — Xeno- 

 phanes tristis, Boisd., and Paches geometrinns, Feld., both well merit- 

 ing the specific name of the latter. 



I tried another and very different collecting ground at El Valle — 

 a combe on the southern side of the ridge lying immediately to the 

 north of the village. A narrow path led through low scrub up to 

 the crest, perhaps some 500 feet above the river. Most of my col- 

 lecting was, however, a couple of hundred feet or so lower. A short 

 distance up, near a lime kiln, several Heliconius charithonia, Linn., 

 were seen, and close by the small black and white Lycaenid, Polyniphe 

 dumenilii. Godt., was to be had in abundance ; it is strange, but true, 

 that this very small Butterfly is the proud possessor of one of the 

 strongest scents (?) — very suggestive of pigstyes, or at any rate of 

 pigs! Several other Lyesenids were taken in this combe: Leplotes 

 cassius, Cram., a male ; Gafochrysops hanno, Stoll., two males ; Thecla 

 rufofusca, Hew., two ; Cullipsyche thius, Hiibn.,* six ; but the most 

 interesting Lycaenid was a single rather sorry individual, of which 

 Mr. H. H. Druce writes : " This is an interesting specimen. I cannot 

 distinguish it from the well-known Eastern and African Zizeru yaika, 

 Trimen (pygmeBa, Snell.), which has a wide range, India, Ceylon, Malay, 

 Australia, South Africa (Rhodesia), &c, but I have never seen it from 

 America, and do not know that it has been recorded. Can it have 

 been recently introduced?" This insect wa3 certainly taken at 

 El Valle, March 26th, 1907, but unfortunately my record leaves it 

 in doubt whether it was taken near the river or up the combe. 



The only Satyrines found were a few Euptychia hennes, Fabr. 

 (camerta, Cram.), but the Nymphalines were as usual well repre- 

 sented, conspicuous amongst them was the bright little CyhchJis 

 mnasylus, Dbl. and IT., looking for all the world like a miniature 



* Mr. H. H. Druce says this is the same as Thecla agra, Hew.; my males from Venezuela 

 have a white tip to the fore- wing, which is not present in Jamaica specimens. 



