Vol. XXV] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 349 



Institute of Jamaica. First noticed it about in October, 1890; 

 very seldom see more than one at a time. October 14th 

 caught a large specimen, 6j/< inches across. November 6th a 

 friend captured a female specimen; she deposited 12 eggs of 

 a light green color. 1891 first saw one in April; did not see 

 another until July, and on the 17th caught a good specimen, 

 6 inches across; got this one up the Fountain Road. August 

 2 1st captured another in my garden. Since then have not seen 

 one down here, but up Beacon Hill, two miles above Bath, on 

 September 27th saw a poor specimen, but could not catch it. 

 October 13th captured a good specimen, 6^ inches across the 

 wings ; it was the largest homents I have ever seen. 



The larva is described by E. Stuart Panton in the same 

 Journal, I, 375, 1893, from a larva sent by Mrs. Swainson. 

 On p. 381 it is said that the food plant was doubtfully deter- 

 mined as the mahoe, Hibiscus elatus, var. abutiloides. 



The larva was also described by C. B. Taylor in Ent. News, 

 V, loi, 1894. He says the food plant is a tree growing to a 

 large size and of great height, bearing subovate leaves with 

 long stalks, deep glossy green. The local name, "Water 

 Wood" ; botanical name unknown. A note by the then editor 

 of the News says the food plant is probably Chimarrhis cymosa 

 Jacq. 



Colonel Wirt Robinson* found what is probably the true 

 home of this Papilio, at the summit of Cuna Cuna pass in the 

 Blue Mountains. On July 13th he took fifteen specimens and 

 between July loth and 20th caught 44. His account of the 

 journey after homcrus is very interesting. 



Our half-tone illustration is from a colored drawing of the 

 larva made by Lady Blake. 



Changes of Address. 



Please insert in next issue of the Nicws my change of address from 

 Lima, Peru, to U. S. National Museum. Washington, D. C, which will 

 be in force after July ist. — C. H. T. Townsend. 



I beg to announce my change of address from The California State 

 Commission of Horticulture, Sacramento, California, to The Depart- 

 ment of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley, California. — 

 E. O. EssiG. _^_____ 



*Ent. News XIV, 17, 1903. 



