280 TROPICAL WILD LIFE IN BRITISH GUIANA 



Photo by W. B. 

 FIG. 93. CATERPILLAR OF'SPHINX MOTH 



July 1st Big brood at evening lights, of small, white-spotted June- 

 bugs. Nocturnal skipper at lights in Kalacoon; 



July 2nd Bellbirds appear on Bartica road. Brood of tiny red jungle 

 butterflies. 



July 3rd Morphos along trails become fewer and very ragged. Large 

 colony of lesser green sand hornets at height of nesting 

 on plantation road. 



July 4th New broods of sphinx larvae in compound. First big chorus 

 of marine toads heard. 



July 5th Quadrille wren's eggs one-quarter incubated. 



July 6th Last white-necked crake's nest and two eggs found far out 

 Convict Trail. Many pairs of small, short-horned grass- 

 hoppers mating. 



July 7th Smallest kingfishers feeding one young. 



July 8th Five new species of butterflies in rubber clearing, especially 

 Junonia. Third day without rain, heat so great at noon 

 that twenty bats creep out from eave holes and hang 

 outside. Two storms in evening; first ones. 



July 9th Spotted sandpiper with diseased ovary tissues, shot on the 

 shore. 



