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Hypolimnas rnisippus, Linn. ; this is the only place that I came across 

 it, but here it was quite common, fluttering about low plants, and 

 never settling for long. PJiyciodcs was represented by one anief", 

 Hew., and Dynamitic by postverta, Cram., tlieseus, Feld., and sara } 

 Bates ; one of the last named was drinking at mud. A fine Hypna 

 ch/temnestra, Cram., caused me much tribulation ; I saw it on both 

 my visits to the combe, missing it three times, then, as I was return- 

 ing to its haunt full of good resolutions to keep cool and so ensure 

 success, a wretched boy brought it to me in triumph, having caught 

 it with his hat! It had been a good specimen of the very distinct 

 form rufescens, Butl. The Yanessa-like Ancea ryphea, Cram., was 

 rather commoner, and I secured four; one of these was captured on 

 the very windy crest of the ridge together with Tasitia eresimus, 

 Cram., a female ; Synchloe lacinia, Hiibn., f. sanndcrsii, Dbl. and H., 

 and two males of the common Precis lavinia, Cram., of the dry form 

 corresponding to zonalis, Feld., but more dingy than Jamaican 

 specimens. This is the P. onicliaelui of Fruhstorfer (Stett. Entom. 

 Zeit., 1907, p. 224). 



My delight was great at taking Gallicore marchalii, Guer., a 

 butterfly more interesting to Venezuelan politicians from its bearing 

 the mystic figures " 88 " upon the under-side of its hind-wings, than 

 for its singular beauty. I also took here my first Didonis biblis, 

 Fabr., a handsome black and scarlet butterfly that I was soon to 

 become familiar with in Trinidad ; it returns again and again to the 

 same place, as do our Vanessce. 



Pierines were not common up that combe. Of Meganostoma 

 cerbera, Feld., I took a female ; of Sphcenogona gratiosa, Dbl. and H., 

 a male, and of $. arbela, Hiibn., three males of an unusual pale form. 

 The very familiar Callidryas eubtile, Linn., was represented by a small, 

 somewhat " dry " male. I captured one of each sex of Pseudopieris 

 nehemia, Boisd. That hillside did not produce a single Papilio. 



Skippers, as is often the case in the New World, were more 

 remarkable for the number of species than of individuals ; those met 

 with were : — Ileliopetes alana, Beakt. (adusta, Ploetz), one; H. arsalte, 

 Linn., one, this has a swift, dashing flight ; the large long-tailed 

 Eudamus catillus, Cram, one ; E. eurycles, Latr., one; Arteurotia 

 tractipennis, Butl. and Hruce, one ; the pretty Larentia-Whe Chiomara 

 asychis, Cram., one ; one of an unnamed small black species, and one 

 of the very widely distributed Hesperia syricJ/ZJuis, Fabr. 



