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abundant all along the Coast of British Guiana from 

 Berbico to Essequibo from June to August of 1912. This 

 record is inserted here, as we have seen that in 1912 they 

 were also present in numbers in Trinidad, and also as, being 

 in an obscure journal, it is likely to be overlooked by other 

 observers. 



I was in British Guiana from June to September 1916, 

 and only have recorded a single specimen at the mouth of 

 the Waini river on 14th June. 



Cydamon leilus in Barbados. 



1901. In the Agricultural News of the West Indies 

 (Barbados), vol. i, No. 4 (June 7th, 1902), p. 56, there is an 

 unsigned article on the " Blue Page Moth " from which 

 the following is taken : " During the gale that reached 

 Barbados and St. Vincent on August 26th, 1901, numbers 

 of a large moth were found in Barbados of a kind not pre- 

 viously known to breed there. They had evidently been 

 l)rought by the high south-west wind. Some were caught 

 and were identified as Urania sloanei [see below], the 

 ' blue page ' of Trinidad, and they had apparently come 

 from the maiidand or more probably from Trinidad itself. 

 They were found as far north as Dominica, and one was 

 caught on R.M.S. ' Eden ' half-way between St. Luoia 

 and Barbados. . . . The direct distance from Trinidad 

 to Barbados is about 160 miles, and to Dominica some 100 

 miles more." 



On p. 168 of the same journal is a note to say that the 

 identification was wrong, and that the species was Urania 

 {Cydamon) leilns. 



1905. There is a specimen in the collection of the 

 Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies 

 labelled " Barbados, August 1905." See also under 1906. 



1906. In the Agricultural News (Barbados), v. No. 117, 

 20th October, 1906, is the following note : " At the present 

 time a moth is being found in Barbados which was noticed 

 in that island during the gale of 26th August, 1901. This 

 is the Green Page Moth {Urania Icilvs). . . . About a year 

 ago several specimens were caught in Barbados, and it 

 seems probable that it is breeding here." This last deduc- 

 tion is almost certainly incorrect. 



1912. In the card index of the Barbados Department of 

 Agriculture is a note to the effect that the insect was 



