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the road and at one of these, constantly alighting on the 

 muddy border, were beautiful butterflies {Timetes marcella) 

 with a wing-spread of two and one-eighth inches. The 

 fore wings are chiefly orange, dark brown at tip, paler brown 

 at base, the latter brown crossed by four or five darker 

 brown lines parallel to the body. Each hind wing has on 

 its hind edge two tails, the outer longer (one-half inch as 

 compared with less than one-eighth inch for the inner tail). 

 The hind wings are chiefly brown of nearly the same intens- 

 ity as that of the base of the fore wings, bounded with orange 

 on the anterior half of the outer wing-margin, and having a 

 patch of pale purple or reddish-violet in the middle third 

 of the wing, almost from wing-base to near the base of 

 the tails. The under sides of the wings are chiefly buff 

 crossed by lines or narrow stripes of white parallel with the 

 body. 



Much coffee, sugar-cane and tobacco are now grown in 

 the bottom and side of the main Reventazon valley and of 

 its side valleys, in the neighborhood of Cachi. Mr. Lankes- 

 ter said that practically all the cultivated land around the 

 village was forest twenty-five years earlier. The opposite, 

 north or left bank of the river is the site of an older settle- 

 ment known as Ujarras. Cachi has been a favorite spot for 

 entomological collectors. Here in 1877 came H. Rogers 

 gathering specimens for Alessrs. Godman and Salvin's 

 Biologia Centrali-Americana, but the exact date, in months, 

 of his visit is unknown. Mr. Lankester told me that none 

 of the present inhabitants of Cachi remember him. The 

 late Prof. Paul BioUey collected at Cachi in May, 1905. 

 Messrs. Schaus and Barnes were here at least twice, their 

 latest visit being in September and October, 1909. Owing 

 to the larger extent of forest at the time of Rogers' sojourn 

 here, the insect and other life of the region must have been 

 quite different. Our meager results, so far as dragonflies 



