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latter very common among grass and less chary of sunlight than many 

 of the family ; the more attractive Oressinoma typlila, Dbl. and H., 

 was on the contrary always found in the shade. 



The commonest Nymphaline was the tiny fulvous Phyciodes 

 anieta, Hew. Here also I first made acquaintance with the beautiful 

 genus Dynamine, capturing three theseus, Feld., and one geta, Godm. 

 Anartia amalthea, Linn., flew over the water of the levadas, and 

 Precis lavinia, Cram., was as usual easier to see than to catch. 

 A single specimen of Pyrantels myrinna, Dbl., was captured at the 

 flowers of a Composite creeper near the farmhouse, while the shades 

 of the wood yielded the larger game Vlctorina stelenes, Linn., and 

 Amplurene epaphus, Latr. ; one of the last named was drinking in the 

 bed of the stream, where I had the bad luck to miss a Callicore. But 

 of all the beautiful butterflies seen there by far the most startling 

 was my first Morplio. A huge bird-like creature sailing down the 

 gully, now giving an azure flash, now almost disappearing as the 

 upper surface turns away — flash, flash, flash, and it is out of sight! 

 Shortly afterwards I had the pleasure of beating Morplio peleides, 

 Koll., a male, out of a bush and netting it as it flapped away. 



The sole Danaine was a male, Anosia arcliippus, Fabr., but the 

 Acrseines were represented by a number of Actinote antcas, Dbl. 

 and H., though that species was commoner in the outskirts of the 

 city ; of its congener A. hylonome, Dbl., I only secured a single 

 specimen. The only Erycinids taken were a couple of Charts argy- 

 rodines, Bates, and one of the conspicuous black, yellow, and scarlet 

 Lymnas jarbus, Fabr. 



Heliconiines were not common, but I took Heliconius charithonia, 

 Linn., and two of the beautiful black and red //. hydara, Hew. (one 

 of the species into which the beautiful //. melpomene, Linn., has been 

 split up) ; these last were both males, one only of which had a very 

 strong odour, like acetylene, or, as Mr. G. H. ISworder of Tobago 

 suggested, hazeline (Hamamelis virginica). This insect is tenacious 

 of life. 



I got but one Papilio, but its beauty was striking even among so 

 many fine insects, for a male P. cymochles, Dbl., feeding on the flowers 

 of Lantana is a sight worth going far to see. Its handsome black, 

 scarlet, and cream-coloured livery is in itself a feast of colour, but 

 when that marvellous violet-blue gloss is seen, words altogether 

 fail one. 



Among the Lycaenids the wide ranging Leptotcs (Tarucus) cassius, 

 Cram., was by far the commonest, the sexes in about equal numbers ; 



