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latter very common among grass and less chary of sunlight than many 
of the family ; the more attractive Oressinoma typhla, Dbl. and H., 
was on the contrary always found in the shade. 
The commonest Nymphaline was the tiny fulvous Phyciodes 
anieta, Hew. Here also I first made acquaintance with the beautiful 
genus Dynamine, capturing three theseus, Feld., and one geta, Godm. 
Anartia amalthea, Linn., flew over the water of the lJevadas, and 
Precis lavinia, Cram., was as usual easier to see than to catch. 
A single specimen of Pyrameis myrinna, Dbl., was captured at the 
flowers of « Composite creeper near the farmhouse, while the shades 
of the wood yielded the larger game Vietorina stelenes, Linn., and 
Amphirene epaphus, Latr. ; one of the last named was drinking in the 
bed of the stream, where I had the bad luck to miss a Callicore. But 
of all the beautiful butterflies seen there by far the most startling 
was my first Morpho. A huge bird-like creature sailing down the 
gully, now giving an azure flash, now almost disappearing as the 
upper surface turns away—flash, flash, flash, and it is out of sight! 
Shortly afterwards I had the pleasure of beating Morpho peleides, 
Koll., a male, out of a bush and netting it as it flapped away. 
The sole Danaine was a male, Anosia archippus, Fabr., but the 
Acreines were represented by a number of <Aclinote anteas, Db. 
and H., though that species was commoner in the outskirts of the 
city; of its congener dA. hylonome, Dbl., I only secured a single 
specimen. The only Erycinids taken were a couple of Charis argy- 
rodines, Bates, and one of the conspicuous black, yellow, and scarlet 
Lymnas jarbus, Fabr. 
Heliconiines were not common, but I took Helicontus charithonia, 
Linn., and two of the beautiful black and red H. hydara, Hew. (one 
of the species into which the beautiful H. melpomene, Linn., has been 
split up) ; these last were both males, one only of which had a very 
strong odour, like acetylene, or, as Mr. G. H. Sworder of Tobago 
sugvested, hazeline (Hamamelis virginica). This insect is tenacious 
of life. 
I got but one Papilio, but its beauty was striking even among so 
many fine insects, for a male P. cymochles, Dbl., feeding on the flowers 
of Lantana is a sight worth going far to see. Its handsome black, 
scarlet, and cream-coloured livery is in itself a feast of colour, but 
when that marvellous violet-blue gloss is seen, words altogether 
fail one. 
Among the Lycenids the wide ranging Leptotes (Tarucus) cassius, 
Cram., was by far the commonest, the sexes in about equal numbers ; 
