II. Notes on some Butterflies taken im Jamaica. By G. 
B. LonestaFr, M.D., F.R.C.P., FES. 
[Read November 6, 1907.] 
THE island of Jamaica is 144 miles long by 49 miles wide, 
and comprises an area of 4207 square miles, so that it is 
about equal to the counties of Devon and Somerset taken 
together. It lies well within the tropics, being between 
the latitudes 17° 45’ and 18° 35’ N. 
Rather more than half the total area of the island is 
below the 1000 feet contour line, but some 60 square miles 
have an altitude of 4000 feet and upwards, the highest 
point reached by the Blue Mountains being 7360 feet. 
My most remote points were separated by 120 miles of 
longitude, and 40 miles of latitude, but though I spent 
three weeks at an elevation of 2000 feet and upwards my 
highest point was but 2900 feet. 
As regards geological formations, I collected upon almost 
all those of which the island is made up, with one im- 
portant exception—I did not explore the Blue Mountains, 
indeed there seemed to be little to induce one to do so at 
that time of the year. 
My remarks naturally enough apply to the places that I 
have visited, and to the times of my visits, limitations 
which should not be forgotten. My collecting was con- 
fined to ten weeks (Dec. 31—March 8) of the dry season, 
the tropical winter. However, the general aspect of the 
country towards the end of the dry season does not sug- 
gest to the English visitor either winter or early spring, 
but rather a fine, hot, late autumn, with burnt-up, 
gone-to-seed herbage and falling leaves. The quiet and 
solitude of the woods was surprising, so that the falling 
of a big leaf, such as are common in the tropics, would 
make clatter enough upon the path to give one a start. 
Often where trees and varied undergrowth little disturbed 
by cultivation suggested a profusion of insects, almost none 
were found. Not only were butterflies scarce, but beetles, 
bees, wasps, and especially flies. There is a note in my 
diary for Febr. 16th: “Christiana. Caught a wasp, the 
first I had seen since Constant Spring” (Jan. 14). During 
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