THE LEPIDOPTERISL ABROAD. 189. 
and most probably seasonally. In Trinidad the 9 @ vary from having 
hardly a trace of black outer margin of hindwing to a very heavy black 
band, while the ground colour varies from white to a fairly strong 
yellow. These extremes belong most probably to different seasons of 
the year. 
Famity Syntomrpag. 
Mydropastea disparata, n.-sp. 
Forewing black with hyaline patches. Tegulae black with metallic » 
green spots and a white point below. Patagia black. Frons black. 
Femora with conspicuous paired white patches. Abdomen below (in 
3) with large elliptical valve edged with white scales. Last four 
segments edged with orange. Abdomen above with metallic green 
stripe and broader lateral green stripes. Forewing with a long wedge- 
shaped transparent spot within the cell and another beneath the cell. 
Beyond the cell three or four transparent spots in series vertically ; 
first or second or both sometimes absent. Hindwing black with a 
large central area chiefly below cell transparent. In the 3 the space 
is divided at the lower discocellular. Exp., 42mm. 
Habitat. ‘Trinidad, Rock, 1-i.-18, Palmiste, 9-1x.-17 (. Lamont). 
Lig eee 
Type in coll. Lamont. 
The Lepidopterist Abroad. 
Dedicated to my erstwhile entomological mentor and companion. 
H. E. WINSER, Esq. 
The tropic day ends and my toil is done 
Until the morrow, when it starts again, 
And sitting by my tent I watch the sun 
Die down across the bush and o’er the plain. 
It seems a link with England, in a way, 
Just now when all the world is calm and still, 
Because I know that at this hour to-day 
This very sun is red on Hascombe Hill. 
As stands that cottonwood* in towering might 
Emblazoned on the purple of the sky, 
So stand the oaks in Slythurst Woods to-night 
—Nor shall they see my lamp go gleaming by! 
No! for this year I may not wander there, 
My net astream upon the whispering breeze. 
(Nor sheltered, like a wizard in his lair, 
Prepare my potions to anoint the trees.) 
Sibylla flaunts her beauty unafraid ; 
Huphrosyne may flit adown the dell. 
Not mine to follow paphia up the glade 
Or chase—unknowingly—a battered ‘ shell.” 
* A cottonwood is an enormous tree of the outline of an oak, but at least three 
times as high. Very common here on the Gold Coast. 
