some Butterflies taken in Jamaica. 41 



A delightful rolling country of pasture intermixed with 

 woods. About 800-1000 feet. Unfortunately the very 

 head-quarters of the collector's greatest foe in Jamaica — 

 the tick, 



Montego Bay, St. James (Feb. 2-5) ; the collecting 

 ground ranges from the sandy shore to the top of a wooded 

 hill of about 300 feet, and was fairly productive. 



Walderston, Manchester (Feb. G-20) ; the collecting 

 ground ranged from about 2500 feet to 2900 feet (Mile 

 Gully Mountain). An almost waterless district, but the 

 tops of the hills covered with woods. One day (Feb. 16) was 

 spent at Christiana in a gorge cut through Trappean Con- 

 glomerate, about seven miles to north of Walderston. 

 Height about 2000 feet in a well-watered country. 



Spanish Town, St. Catherine (Feb. 20-23); near the 

 edge of an extensive plain, its elevation above the sea 

 must be inconsiderable. 



Port Antonio, Portland (Feb. 24— March 5) ; from the 

 coast my collecting ground extended to the summits of 

 "Shotover" on the west and Park Mount on the east, both 

 about 1000 feet. 



Speaking generally, insects were commonest near the 

 sea and on the slopes of the hills up to 1000 feet. Flies, 

 bees and wasps were especially scarce at 2000 feet and over! 



Anosia archippus, Fabr., 4 $. Only seen at Port Antonio. 

 Found about Asclepias also at Rose and other flowers ; it 

 is hard to kill. 



The Jamaican specimens of this butterfly differ from 

 those from South America in the following particulars. 

 They are brighter ; they have less black along the veins ; 

 there is more fulvous at the tip of the fore-wing; the 

 white spots beyond the cell are outlined (and sometimes 

 suffused) with fulvous. 



Tasitia jamaicensis, Bates. 2 $ near the stream which 

 the Kingston-Castleton road crosses close by Temple Hall; 

 a ^ near Ramble Post Office, another $ near Walderston! 

 Like the preceding, this is hard to kill. 



The form met with on the mainland, T. eresimus. Cram., 

 which appears to be distinct, has much more black about 

 it, e.[/. along the costa and the veins. 



Mr. P. W. Jarvis said to me : " Neither of the Milk- 

 weed Butterflies is very common in Jamaica." 



