some Butter flies taken in Jamaica. 51 



golden Skipper was common near the shore, Port 

 Antonio. 



Catia drurii, Latr. Two. Below Gordon Town, c. 800 

 feet, and on the Park Mount Eoad, Port Antonio, c. 600 

 feet. Very hard to see. It rests with all the wings up, 

 the fore-wings much sloped back. 



Catia vcsuria, Plotz. One, taken by my Portuguese 

 servant in the garden at Walderston. 



Morijs Valerius, Moschl. Four. Two above Constant 

 Spring, c. 700 feet ; two on " Shotover," Port Antonio. 



Thymelicus vibex, Hiibn. (The yellowest form is com- 

 hinata, Plotz., H. H. Druce.) A female came to light at 

 Montego Bay. 



Cymssnes silius, Latr. One, in the wood above the Jam 

 Factory, Constant Spring. 



I call attention to the number of species in which 

 Jamaican examples differ from Venezuelan in the replace- 

 ment of black or grey by fulvous, or orange brown. It is 

 true that the soil of Jamaica, even where the formation is 

 white coralline limestone, is often of an orange brown 

 colour, but it scarcely seems possible to connect the two 

 as cause and effect. 



