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said to have had the good fortune of seeing one caught in 

 the act of sucking the blood of its victim, but Mr. Libert 

 a zealous member of the club reports having personally caught 

 one in the act. I had heard it said that some persons are 

 proof against bat-bites and having been several times exposed 

 to their attacks without being bitten I very nearly believed 

 it, until one night I determined to give them all facility. I slept 

 in a hammock at Gasparee exposing my foot, next morning 

 I was qirte surprised to find myself bathed in blood, the result 

 of a bat-bite. They seem to delight in poultry and attack their 

 birds in the neck. I once saw an unfortunate hen which had 

 been bitten in the night so weak she could not stand and in 

 nine cases out of ten the feathered victim dies. Some 

 country people pretend that these bats go out twice a night 

 in search of prey. It may be they are misled by the fruit eating 

 species who appear at dusk and late during moonlight nights ; 

 but since we have had electric lighting the insectivores have 

 quite a good time of it and feast greedily up to early morning. 



4th May, 1894. 



NOTES ON SOME TRINIDAD BUTTERFLIES. 



By Leciimere Guppt, Jr. 



THE following notes give an account of the striking resemblance 

 between some members of the genus Danais in one or more 

 of their three stages ; at the same time showing the strong 

 difference between them in other stages ; as for instance while 

 the larvae are very much alike, the pupae differ very much, and 

 then the imagos are again alike and vice versa. 



Drawings and specimens of the undermentioned are shown. 



I have also added some notes on Ageronia Jeronia, and 

 Gynaecia dirce. 



Titkorea JJavescens and Sais ev/rymedia. — The eggs of these 

 butterflies are laid singly on the underside of the leaf of a very 

 well-known creeper here, Echites sp., which is very common in 

 Queen's Park (referred to later). The former species T, flavescens, 

 often chooses those vines which are in open situations while the 

 latter only deposit on the small ones in the depths of woods, 

 or in very shady, obscure, moist and protected places suited to the 

 frail imago; these vines are extremely pretty when sheltered 

 from the sun, and the venation of the leaves is beautifully 

 developed, showing up clearly against the dark green ; they 

 seldom, however, grow in such situations to a height of more 



