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not meet with elsewhere in Venezuela, conspicuous among them, on 
the flowers of Lantana camera, Linn, was a specimen of the long- 
winged, richly silver-plated Dione juno, Cram., strikingly resembling 
Colenis julia, Fabr., as regards its upper surface, but with an under- 
side that at once recalled the European Argynnis lathonia, Linn. ; 
even more attractive was the essentially Neo-tropical Nymphaline, 
Myscelia cyaniris, Hew., grey with white stripes, shot with brillant 
violet-—conspicuous as this looksin the cabinet it is by no means as 
conspicuous when sitting, as it is fond of doing, on light grey bark ; 
a black, white, and red Butterfly seen fluttering at the bottom of 
a ditch turned out to be a male of the truly exquisite Papilio euri- 
medes, Cram., perfect in shape and finish, and with a marvellous blue 
gleam in certain lights ; less striking than the last was an unusually 
small female of its soberly coloured congener, P. polydamas, Linn. ; 
lastly, there were two Skippers peculiar to that lane, viz. :—Xeno- 
phanes tristis, Boisd., and Paches geometrinus, Feld., both well merit- 
ing the specific name of the latter. 
I tried another and very different collecting ground at El Valle— 
a combe on the southern side of the ridge lying immediately to the 
north of the village. A narrow path led through low scrub up to 
the crest, perhaps some 500 feet above the river. Most of my col- 
lecting was, hewever, a couple of hundred feet or so lower. A short 
distance up, near a lime kiln, several Heliconius charithonia, Linn., 
were seen, and close by the small black and white Lycenid, Polyniphe 
dumenilii, Godt., was to be had in abundance ; it is strange, but true, 
that this very small Butterfly is the proud possessor of one of the 
strongest scents (?)—very suggestive of pigstyes, or at any rate of 
pigs! Several other Lycenids were taken in this combe: Leptotes 
cassius, Cram., a male ; Catochrysops hanno, Stoll., two males ; Thecla 
rufofusca, Hew., two; Callipsyche thius, Hiibn.,* six; but the most 
interesting Lycenid was a single rather sorry individual, of which 
Mr. H. H. Druce writes: “ This is an interesting specimen. I cannot 
distinguish it from the well-known Eastern and African Zizera gaika, 
Trimen (pygmea, Snell.), which has a wide range, India, Ceylon, Malay, 
Australia, South Africa (Rhodesia), &c., but I have never seen it from 
America, and do not know that it has been recorded. Can it have 
been recently introduced?” ‘This insect was certainly taken at 
El Valle, March 26th, 1907, but unfortunately my record leaves it 
in doubt whether it was taken near the river or up the combe. 
The only Satyrines found were a few Euptychia hermes, Fabr. 
* Mr. H. H. Druce says this is the same as Thecla agra, Hew.; my males from Venezuela 
have a white tip to the fore-wing, which is not present in Jamaica specimens, 
