lip to the time I found it ; therefore, it must have left its 

 natural food plant preferring the heliotrope. This larva is a 

 beautiful green, with oblique lateral purple bands, edged above 

 with white; the length is 3^ ins. ; there are a few spines on 

 the caudal appendage ; the stigmata are pink. It pupated on 

 Oct. 30th ; the proboscis sheath of the pupa is veiy recurved 

 and corrugated. The perfect insect appeared on the 2Gth Nov- 

 ember, 1892. 



The imago of Tiihorea Jiavescens, of which I saw a des- 

 cription in Vol. I, No. 3 of our Journal, under the heading : — 

 " Description of a new Butterfly from Trinidad," by W. F. 

 Kirby, F.E.S. (taken from llie Entomologist, June, 'bO, XXII, 

 No. 313, and of which Mr. Broadway was the discover), lays 

 her eggs in a cluster on the toji of the leaf of the cockroach 

 plant; these eggs are white, conical, and ribbed longitudinally. 

 They take four days to hatch. The larvfc are soft, fleshy, and 

 pale grey in coloTir, possessing one pair of vertical tubercles of 

 the neck, and eight pair of lateral tubercles. In the first three 

 segments the tubercles ai-e absent. There is a dorsal band of 

 pale yellow, and at the base of each tubercle is an orange space 

 with a minute dot of black about the centre. They are very 

 gregarious, and feed from the underside of the leaf ; in seven- 

 teen days they are full fed. The wings of the imago are plainly 

 seen through the transparent pupa case ; at first the pupa is a 

 dull yellow, which is the colour of the larva just previous to 

 pupating ; a day or two after it becomes like burnished silver, 

 and then golden ; this stage lasts ten days, I had a number of 

 them, suspended by their tails from the top of the cage, and 

 they presented a beautiful appearance. I found the eggs in 

 December last. Specimens of these insects may be captured all 

 the year round on the San' Fernando Hill. 



On Dec. 30th, 3892, I found, feeding on a Ahasnanda 

 cathartica (the Creole Jasmine) abouttwenty caterpillars of a moth 

 whose larvfc, when young, are almost black, with lateral white 

 bands ; the excessively long recurved caudal appendage is 

 almost as long as the body of the insect. The larva, as it grows, 

 gradually becomes lighter in colour, becoming light brown with 

 darker markings forming patterns, which are divided into bands, 

 dorsal and lateral, by dark lines running from head to tail ; the 

 white lateral band becomes tinted Avith lilac. They pupated 

 betAveeu the 3rd and Oth of January, forming a slight cocoon 

 of earth in which the larva remains three or four days before 

 assuming the chrysalis stage. The imago appears after twenty- 

 four days ; the primaries are sepia with an indistint light-brown 

 patch just outside the discal veinlets ; the secondaries are 

 orange with broad black border. The pupa, which is light red, 



