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One of the latter genus has a black fascia on the hind wings. Ulula 

 senex, Burm., is not uncommon, and seems to be the only example of the 

 AscalajjhidcE. A small Mantispa (undescribed ?) occasionally visits my lamps 

 at night, and with this species I connect an apterous form found twice 

 under stones, which is pi'obably a pupa. Termes destructor, ¥. (?), is the 

 only species of white ant found in Antigua, and probably in Martinique. 

 Its black, rough, porous nests, resembhng certain fungoid growths, are 

 usuahy attached to trees, but the timber of buildings, and even furniture, 

 are not exempt from its ravages. Long covered ways, extending from floor 

 to ceiling, were lately to be seen in one of my churches ; and I have been 

 cautioned more than once against sitting upon chairs and sofas known to be 

 no longer safe, owing to their excavating the legs. A little heap of sawdust 

 on the floor every morning exhibits the progress of their laljours during the 

 night. Kerosine oil is used here for their destruction, and arsenic is still 

 more efficacious, as the insects themselves diffuse it throughout the colony, 

 by preying upon the poisoned bodies of their companions. Their nests are 

 the resort of such carnivorous insects as exist here, and in the centre of one 

 of them 1 captured a large Scolopendra. The winged sexes appear in July 

 and August, at which time I met with them in some numbers, flying on 

 the sea-shore, as well as in houses, but only after sunset. 



Lepidopteka. 



Of Rhopalocera I have obtained only nineteen species, of which seventeen 

 belong to Antigua, and are, 1 believe, all that are to be found in the island, 

 except one. This last is a large butterfly of rapid flight, black, with white 

 spots, which I saw once on the mountains, but was unable to approach. 

 Almost all the species are very abundant, constituting the principal 

 entomological feature of the country ; hundreds are often in sight at the 

 same moment. I am ignorant for the most part of the names of tropical 

 butteiflies, but the following identifications are perhaps correct: — 



Papillo Polydaiiiaa, L. On mountains in Antigua; commoner in 

 Martinique. 



Dandis Erippus, Cram., and Dione vanillce, L. Abundant in Antigua 

 and Martinique. 



Anartia jatropha, L. Moderately common in Antigua; not seen in 

 Martinique. 



Eurema Lisa, Boisd. In profusion in Antigua ; not in Martinique, 

 where its place is taken by a different species of Eurema. 



Colmnis Delila, F. Common in Martinique. 



Thymele Proteus, L. In woods in Antigua and Martinique. 



Several fine SpldnyidcB are abundant, including S. Carolina, Drury, the 

 larvae of which find their favourite plant on my ground; S. cingulata, F. ; 

 at least two Deilojihihc ; and the insect described as Zyr/cena Panthalon, F. 



