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•ailway-bank with the commoner P.fulva and fasciolaia, but was not easy to obtain 

 good order. Pieris Blanchardii, a\th.o\xgh. not common, was finer and larger than 

 hose from Coquimbo, &c., and I saw a stray Callidryas Drya, probably at its 

 puthem limit of distribution. Pyrameis Terpsichore (scarce, but in most lovely 

 ^ndition) and Carye were also represented, with Etiptoieta Hortensia ; and two 

 /cm specimens of Elina Flora, Phillipi, a pretty Satyrid, new to me, turned up in 

 he marshes. On the hill-sides but few butterflies were to be obtained, except 

 ^pinepTiele limonias, Phil, (common, but worn), Coctei, G-uer. (abundant), and 

 mles ?, Phil Hipparchia chiliensis, Guer., a fine species, common at Coquimbo, 

 ps represented by two ? specimens, and Argynnls Cytheris was fairly plentiful, 

 |16 specimens being very large and fine. 



Among the Heterocera, the greatest prize was the splendid Emperor-moth, 



'olythysana Andromeda, Philippi, which was sufficiently common for me to see as 



any as twenty or thirty specimens during its brief period of flight from 10.50 a.m. 



about 2 p.m. : but it careers over the tops of the trees in so wild and erratic a 



anner, that it cost me many a hard run, and much " waste of tissue," to obtain 



ily four males in fairly good order. I was not able to meet with the $ , or the 



sect in any of its earlier stages. One specimen of the smaller, but very handsome, 



i/perchiria erythrops^ Blanch., was brought to me, and the curious little bluish- 



hck Procris melas, G-uer., was obtained in plenty, both by beating in the earlier 



]rt of the day, and flying briskJy over the tops of the bushes after 3 p.m. Two 



.'^pialidcB (the plain brown Dalaca p aliens, Blanch., and another) were picked up 



Mgly, and a very pretty Eulepia, somewhat like E. grammica, but larger, and with 



: itirely black hind-wings (figured in the Atlas to Gay's " Fauna Chilena " as 



. {lelonia vittigera, Blanch.), occurred not rarely in slightly salt marshes. Large 



1 cnpanies of the handsome larva of Macromphalia chiJensis, Felder, reminding me 



c those of our Clisiocampa castrensis, were found feeding on several plants and 



S'ubs, but they were exceedingly difficult to rear in confinement. 



XoctucB were represented, among others, by the widely distributed Leucania 



liiicfa and Heliothis armiger (the latter appears to be a very common Chilian 



. i^ct), and by several species of Agrotis {saucia,fennica ?, and a very fine species 



n; unlike our A. valligera, occasionally beaten out of thatch). Plusia km, Guenee, 



I iha. Walker (one worn example), and the pretty yellow under- wing P. virgula, 



■ iinch., were taken flying by day ; but the finest thing of the group was a very 



;, l^dsome insect not unlike a Catocala in aspect, expanding 2\ inches, of a general 



/nettled iron-grey colour, with bright orange hind-wings, banded with black. I bred 



tli from a hard oval CerMra-like cocoon found attached to a small bough, and 



uined another specimen by beating, which method yielded at least 40 species of 



GpnetrcB, more than half of which were new to my collection. Among these were 



'se^ral large and handsome EnnomidcB, a fine Poarmia ?, near rhomloidaria in 



' as^ct, but tinted with fulvous on the hind-wings (not rare), and, perhaps, the 



• 'p: tiest of all, the delicate sulphur-yellow Caherid, Syllexis lucida, Butler. Pyrales, 



^ rices, and TinecB were not numerous, but a few fine species of the two latter 



•s turned up, among others a pair of the beautiful blood-red Pachyphoenix 



'inea, Butler (Trans. Ent. Soc, 1883, p. 81). 



Coleoptera were not as a rule plentiful, but I obtained a large dung-chafer, 



