44 Dr. G. B. Longstaff's Notes on 



named three forms of this genus, all from Surinam, lavinia, 

 evareie and (jcnoveva. It appears to me that Mr. Marshall 

 is quite correct in uniting these under the first name, 

 together with the Northern form ccenia, Hlibn. (the name 

 adopted by Messrs. Godman and Sal v in in the " Biologia 

 Cent. Am."). 



Jamaican specimens, usually known by local collectors as 

 Junooiia genoveva, Cram., are, as a rule, brighter than 

 South American, with the transverse white band near the 

 tip of the fore-wing fairly conspicuous, being of the form 

 zonalis, Feld.* They are somewhat intermediate in 

 character, between the South American and North 

 American forms, to which latter specimens in the Hope 

 Collection from the Bahamas approach more nearly. 



Anartia jatrophm, Linn., var. Jumaicensis, Moschler. 8 $, 

 7 $. Widely distributed and abundant. Constant Spring, 

 Castle ton, Mandeville, Mackfield, Montego Bay, Walderston 

 (scarce), Christiana, Port Antonio. 



It is |Mr excellence the common road-side Butterfly of 

 Jamaica. A somewhat ghostly looking insect on the 

 wing ; when settled among whitish dead grass, with wings 

 closed, it is very cryptic. It usually settles on the ground 

 or close to it and does not frequent flowers much.^ 



Jamaican specimens are all very readily distinguished 

 from those from South America by the broad bright fulvous, 

 or orange brown, margin to the wings. There is a mere 

 trace of this colour in specimens from the mainland, 

 which moreover appear to be less densely scaled. 



Cystincvra dorcas, Fabr. (mardania, Cram.). 22 speci- 

 mens. Local ; Constant Spring, Gordon Town, Mackfield 

 (abundant), Williamsfield Cave, Montego Bay, Port Antonio 

 (common). 



This delicate and very distinct butterfly, which some- 

 what resembles a Satyrid, frequents moist, shady places 

 with long grass. There is sometimes much fluttering in 

 its very slow flight, but at other times it glides. Though 

 not such a flower-lover as many Nymphalines, it often 

 visits the Spanish Needle, Bidcns leucantkus, W. It 

 usually settles with its wings wide open, and if it close 

 them up re-opens them quickly. On 1st February, 1907, 



* H. Fnihstorfer (Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1907, p. 224) conies to the 

 same conclusion as Marshall as to Craniei-'s three forms, but makes 

 the Cuban form {zcnuilis according to Marshall) a new sub-species 

 unichxlisi. 



