1898.] LEPIDOPTERA ITEOM SAN DOMI>-GO. 363 



Family H e l i c o x 1 1 d .e. 



3. Heliconiits CHAEiTHoifiA (Linn.). 



[Common. Noted also in the island o£ St. Thomas in January. 

 It is peculiarly moth-hke in its habits and flight, frequenting dim 

 and shady places, flying backward and forward through the 

 bushes, slowly and aimlessly but with the wings moving fairly 

 quickly. Generally two are seen together. When repeatedly struck 

 at, this insect will fall down through the bushes like a dead leaf. — 

 C. C] 



4. Ltcorea cleob.ea (Hiibn.). 



[Four specimens taken in February. — C. C] 



Family J^xmphalid.e. 



5. CoL^Nis delila (Fabr.). 



[A common insect in the garden during February, March, and 

 April, becoming hardly recognizable, owing to its battered condition, 

 towards April. — C. C] 



6. Ageaulistanill.5: (Linn.). 



[Very common at Sanchez during February and March, settling 

 on the flowers in the garden. Like A. delila, it becomes hardly 

 recognizable in April, owing to its battered condition. It is a 

 quick-flying insect. — C. C] 



7. AS'AETIA IATEOPH.E (LiuU.). 



[One of the most abundant species of all during February, 

 March, and April, both at Sanchez and La Vega. It flies low and 

 frequents the roadsides and clearings everywhere. — 0. C] 



8. CXSTIKEURA TELEBOAS (McUctr.). 



[The only occasion upon which I observed this species was in 

 April, on the mountain side near La Vega, where I discovered a 

 small party of live amongst some bushes, about 2 feet high. They 

 never left the cover of these bushes and flew with such a slow, 

 weak flight that, even at a distance of 2 or 3 feet, they were 

 difficidt to distinguish, unless the bushes and grass were absolutely 

 still. I took two of them in a collecting-bottle, without using 

 the net.— C. C] 



9. At^aetia DOMINICA Skinner. 



[Xot common. Only five specimens taken during Februarv, 

 March, and April— C. C] / " 



10. Ageeonia perentina (Grodt.). 



[Not noticed before April. Then pretty common at La Vega. 

 A most wary aud diflScult insect to catch, and costly, for I was 

 always breaking my net over it. I met with it usuallj- on the 

 trunks of trees, baslung in the sun with its wings extended flat 



