72 (March, 1908. 
(camerta, Cram.), but the Nymphalines were as usual well repre- 
sented, conspicuous amongst them was the bright little Cybdelis 
mnasylus, Dbl. and H., looking for all the world like a miniature 
Hypolimnas misippus, Linn. ; this is the only place that I came across 
it, but here it was quite common, fluttering about low plants, and 
never settling for long. Phyciodes was represented by one anieta, 
Hew., and Dynamine by postverta, Cram., theseus, Feld., and sara, 
Bates ; one of the last named was drinking at mud. A fine Hypna 
clytemnestra, Cram., caused me much tribulation; I saw it on both 
my visits to the combe, missing it three times, then, as | was return- 
ing to its haunt full of good resolutions to keep cool and so ensure 
success, a wretched boy brought it to me in triumph, having caught 
it with his hat! It had been a good specimen of the very distinct 
form rufescens, Butl. The Vanessa-like Anea ryphea, Cram., was 
rather commoner, and I secured four; one of these was captured on 
the very windy crest of the ridge together with Tasitia eresimus, 
Cram., a female ; Synchloé lacinia, Hiibn., f. saundersti, Dbl. and H., 
and two males of the common Precis lavinia, Cram., of the dry form 
corresponding to zonalis, Feld., but more dingy than Jamaican 
specimens. This is the P. michaelisi of Fruhstorfer (Stett. Entom 
Zeit., 1907, p. 224). 
My delight was great at taking Callicore marchalii, Guér., a 
butterfly more interesting to Venezuelan politicians from its bearing 
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the mystic figures “88” upon the under-side of its hind-wings, than 
for its singular beauty. J also took here my first Didonis biblis, 
Fabr., a handsome black and scarlet butterfly that I was soon to 
become familiar with in Trinidad ; it returns again and again to the 
same place, as do our Vanesse. 
Pierines were not common up that combe. Of MMeganostoma 
cerbera, Keld., I took a female ; of Sphenogona gratiosa, Dbl. and H., 
a male, and of S. arbela, Hibn., three males of an unusual pale form. 
The very familiar Callidryas eubule, Linn., was represented by a small, 
somewhat “dry ’’ male. I captured one of each sex of Pseudopieris 
nehemia, Boisd. That hillside did not produce a single Papilio. 
Skippers, as is often the case in the New World, were more 
remarkable for the number of species than of individuals ; those met 
with were :— !Jeliopetes alana, Reakt. (adusta, Ploetz), one; H. arsalte, 
Linn., one, this has a swift, dashing flight; the large long-tailed 
Hudamus catillus, Cram., one; E. eurycles, Latr., one; Arteurotia 
tractipennis, Butl. snd Druce, one; the pretty Larentia-like Chiomara 
asychis, Cram., one; one of an unnamed small black species, and one 
of the very widely distributed Hesperia syrichthus, Fabr. 
