174 Mr. W. J. Kaye's Catalogue of the 



in St. Ann's Valley. It frequents damp spots by streams, 

 and when alarmed flies off rapidly and settles then on a 

 branch of a tree near by. 



53. Gyn^cia dirce. 



Papilio dirce, Linn., Mus. Ulr., p. 287 (1764). 

 Range. Jamaica; Brazil; Guia.na. 



Not very common. 



This species, together with certain (? all) species of 

 Ageronia, makes a loud clicking sound when flying. The 

 flight is short and wild and generally a wheeling motion, 

 returning quickly to some bare tree-trunk, where it settles 

 with the wings folded, and head downwards. 



54. Ageronia ferentina. 



Papilio ferentina, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix, p. 428, n. 248 

 (1823). 



Range. Venezuela ; Panama ; Mexico ; Hayti ; 

 Brazil. 



Abundant locally. 



This species always alights and sits on a bare tree-trunk, 

 with the wings folded flat on to the trunk. Frequently 

 eight or ten will be found thus on a single trunk. If 

 alarmed they will fly off, and return probably to the same 

 tree, but on the opposite side. I have more than once 

 cautiously crept up, and as soon as the butterfly got 

 alarmed it would walh round to the opposite side of the 

 tree to which I was standing. 



55. Peridromia ^'eronia. 



Papilio feronia, Linn., Mus. Ulr., p. 283 (1764). 



Range. Brazil; St. Lucia; Ecuador. 



Not nearly so common as A. ferentina, and partial to a 

 lower elevation. 



56. Peridromia amphinome. 



Papilio amphinome, Linn., Syst. Nat., i, 2, p. 779, n. 176 

 (1767). 



Range. Brazil. 



Rare or very local. 



