TRANSACTIONS 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



LONDON. 



I. Notes on South American Butterflies. By H. W. 

 Bates, Esq., Cor. Memb. Ent. Soc, London. 



[Read September 7ih. 1857.] 



The following notes were communicated by Mr. Bates in a letter 

 to Mr. Adam White, dated Ega, 20th May, 1857; and being 

 the record of observations made on the insects in their native 

 haunts, it is thought that they will not be devoid of interest to the 

 Entomological Society : — 



Papilio Caudius is the ? of Papilio Torquatus. It appears 

 scarcely credible, but I once found a pair in cop. Caudius is 

 found in the forest, Torquatus in the sunshine of open places, but 

 in very damp weather both are found together at flowers on the 

 borders of the woods. 



Heliconidce. — I reared Heliconia erato at Cameta ; the larvae are 

 spinose, like the Vanessa, &c., and the chrysalis suspended by the 

 tail. This family I look upon as mostly a modern creation, the 

 species unfixed, very susceptible of change, in conjunction with 

 the least modification of local circumstance; but these theo- 



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