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should greatly value the help of any of your readers on two points. (1) 
Any information which may lead to the establishment of the inclusive 
dates between which the late Thomas Belt was at the Montes Aureos, 
Brazil. (A specimen in the British Museum from the Godman-Salvin 
collection was collected there by Belt, and is, as far as I am aware, the 
earliest recorded example from the New World.) (2) The capture of 
large series of the species, especially of females, in any of its American 
localities. These are British Guiana and Brazil in South America, 
and the Island of Trinidad, Southern Florida in North America, and 
many West Indian Islands. ‘The specimens are best sent in ‘‘ papers,”’ 
with exact dates and localities written upon each. The African form 
of the female is said to be slightly darker than the Oriental, corres- 
ponding with the darker richer colouring of its model, Limnas chrysippus, 
and, however this may be, the proportion of the inaria form of female 
differs greatly in different parts of the geographical range. A 
sufficient series of New World females, carefully examined and com- 
pared, may be expected to throw light upon the direction of recent 
lines of migration. 
The specimens brought by Captain Ellis are in the Hope Depart- 
ment, where they can be seen at any time.—Oxford University 
Museum. November, 1900. 
