some Butterflies taken 1m Jamaica. 49 
A male taken above Constant Spring at about 1000 
feet elevation on January Ist; another male taken near 
Chancery Hall, 500 feet, on January 8th, approached the 
form lydia, Feld., in having the longitudinal black streak 
broader than usual. On the other hand, another male 
taken somewhat below the first named and on the same 
day has no black streak at all, merely the streak of orange. 
Terias elathea, Cram. 3 f, 1 2. Scarce.- Constant 
Spring, Montego Bay, Port Antonio (Shotover Hill). 
This butterfly appears to be specifically distinct from 
delia, Cram., but is certainly very closely allied to it. The 
females are difficult to distinguish, and some specimens of 
the male sex not easy. In two males from Venezuela one 
has the black streak obsolescent, in the other entirely 
absent with indeed very little orange. 
Pieris phileta, Fabr. (monuste, Hiibn. et auct. nec Linn.), 
49,192. Only met with at Montego Bay, and at Con- 
trivance, Walderston. 
The flight of this butterfly is sometimes extremely 
swift, and it exercised my active Portuguese servant and 
myself very severely to secure three specimens near the 
shore of Montego Bay. Sometimes it may be taken at the 
flowers of Hupatorium odoratum, Linn. During life the 
clubs of the antenne are of a beautiful turquoise blue. 
PAPILIONIN &. 
Papilio polydamas, Linn. (f. polycrates, Hopff.). 7 speci- 
mens. Constant Spring (common), below Gordon Town, 
Spanish Town. Not seen on the high land. 
Fond of flowers, especially bougainvillea, fluttering as 
it feeds, as many of the ial do. A specimen observed 
flying in deep shade about 5 p.m. settled on a dead leat 
and closed its wings; the underside was distinctly cryptic. 
All my specimens are of the insular form in which the 
marginal spots of the fore-wing are paler, those of the 
hind- -wing greener, than in South American examples : 
the marginal pattern on the underside of the hind-wing is 
coarser, with more brick-red and more white in it. 
HESPERIID. 
ELudamus proteus, Linn. 9 specimens. Constant Spring, 
below Gordon Town, Port Antonio (commen). Has 
a quiet flapping flight; at rest all its wings are nearly 
upright, but the fore-wings much sloped back, the tai!s at 
