660 Dr. G. B. Loi^^aff's Bionomic Notes on Butterflies. 



The pretty little Nymphaline Dynamine theseus, Fekl., 

 which I was familiar with in Venezuela, Trinidad and 

 Tob.igo, often reminded me of a Lycfenid in its rapid flight 

 and other ways ; thus I several times saw it settle head 

 downwards and then quickly move its wings, though I was 

 not able to get near enough to make out the exact nature 

 of the movement. 



§ 12. The Rest -Attitudes of certain Neotropical and 

 Oriental Hesperids. 



The attitudes assumed by the following Skippers are 

 doubtless familiar enough to many who have seen them 



Fio. 3. 



Exulamus proteus at rest : (a) side view, (b) from above. 



alive, but nevertheless I think it worth putting them on 

 record, more especially since even such excellent illustra- 

 tions as those of Plotz represent these insects at rest in 

 positions that they never assume. 



Eudamus proteus, Linn. The rest-attitude of this com- 

 mon species, as seen in Jamaica, is very striking. It was 

 noted to rest with all the wings up, but partly open and 

 with the fore-wings much sloped back. At the same time 

 the conspicuous tails remain horizontal, nearly at right 

 angles to the wings ; for a great part of their length they 

 overlap, but their extremities are divergent. If Mr. 

 Knigiit's drawings do not represent this attitude quite as 

 clearly as I should have liked, it is because I was not able 



