46 Dr. G. B. Longstaff’s Notes on 
seen at Ramble and Walderston may have belonged to 
this species or the next. 
A strong flier frequenting the tops of trees, especially 
the Star Apple, Chrysophyllum cainito, Linn., on the leaves 
and fruit of which it occasionally settles. More frequently 
it is seen to rest on tree-trunks (in particular the Log- 
wood, Hematoxylon campeachianum, Linn.), on posts or 
buildings within a few feet of the ground, always with its 
head downwards and wings closed over its back. When 
thus settled it may be detected, when seen in profile, at 
a considerable distance in spite of its cryptic coloration. 
It is not easy to catch even when settled, and I spent 
much time over it. One of my specimens seems to 
show a bird-bite at the usual corner of the hind-wings. 
In the Jamaican specimens the fulvous band across the 
fore-wing is much broader than in those from the main- 
land; there is also a tendency for the fulvous on the 
hind-wing to be more extended. 
Coa acheronta, Fabr. (cadmus, Cram.). A broken fore- 
wing of this species was picked up off the ground in a 
wood above Constant Spring, January 5th, 1907. 
The Haiti specimens in the Hope Collection are more 
fulvous than those from the mainland, and this fragment 
appears to be of Haitian type. 
LYCANID. 
Leptotes (Tarucus) theonus, Lefebre, 1856 (Plebeius cassius, 
var. a, floridensis, Morrison, 1874), 8 , 199. Met with in 
every locality that I visited: common at Mackfield; 
abundant at Constant Spring, Gordon Town and Port 
Antonio. The excess of females taken may be attributed 
to its superior size and attractiveness, but possibly it is 
easier to capture. It is most often seen flying over shrubs 
or near woods; it has a quick jerky flight and appears 
larger than it is, especially the female. After rain it is 
about the first butterfly to come out. 
All my specimens taken in Jamaica are distinguishable 
at a glance from those taken in South America, Trinidad 
or Tobago. They are smaller and darker; the hind-wing 
of the male is violet-blue instead of white; the fore-wing 
of the female is shot with blue over at least two-thirds of the 
fore-wing, and there is much less white in the hind-wing. 
On the underside the metallic-centred ocellus is larger, and 
there are differences in the dark markings of the fore-wing. 
