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as I later discovered. I was too late for it, July being the best month. 

 On the weedy banks by the side of the road, Phi/rioih'a frisia was 

 common. This is one of the butterflies that loves dry situations. It 

 is exceedingly fragile, and is without doubt relished by birds, as a 

 majority of the specimens had wedges taken out of the wings. While 

 on the dry situation loving species, mention should be made of that 

 puzzling genus Tcrias (Eurfuia). These fragile-looking little black and 

 yellow butterflies, about which so much has been said regarding the 

 dry and wet seasonal forms, were ahvays abundant at the side of the 

 road. Eegarding those species that fell to my own net {T. cittcrpc, T. 

 lijdia, and T. dat/wa), I assert most strongly that to separate the forms 

 of each under the heads of " dry," " wet " and " intermediate," is at 

 variance Avith the facts of the case. There is not the slightest doubt 

 that many of the forms are " weather " varieties, in the sense that the 

 perfect insects have undergone changes as perfect insects, but not as 

 pupte. One does not find in the above three species, worn specimens, 

 anything approaching the colour of the freshly emerged individuals. 

 To illustrate this. Specimens of T. cuterpc, a yellow species, after 

 being out some time, were constantly being mistaken for T. albida, a 

 genuine Avhite species. A Terias, that was noticed to have a different 

 habit from the general rule of being found in dry situations, was T. 

 wcstirooiJii, Bois. It was particularly a wet-situation insect, and had a 

 much more powerful flight. I noticed it at about 2, .500 feet elevation 

 as well as in the valleys. Never more than one or two were seen at 

 one time. In the Bath district several butterflies, not observed before, 

 were met with. Quite the butterfly was Victurina stcndrs, a grand 

 green and black insect, which was in the greatest profusion on the 

 rotting mangoes lying on the ground. They were to be caught without 

 any trouble and thoughts of a long chase after a specimen in Trinidad 

 came to my mind. Now and then a specimen of Gnaecia dirce would 

 descend to the rotten fruit, but it was not easily taken, and required 

 some careful stalking. This species is particularly fond of very damp 

 spots, where it darts about with a peculiar jerking flight, stopping to 

 settle on a bare tree-trunk, when the remarkable zebra-like markings 

 of the underside are not so conspicuous as one would imagine. This 

 insect has the power of making a sort of crackling noise in flight. The 

 Hcsperiidae were very well represented. A very interesting fact with 

 regard to the Pericharea group of the sub-family I'aiiijihtlinac, of which 

 P. corydon, a skipper of 2^in. expanse, is a representative, I noted to 

 be that they flew much more freely at dusk, thus bearing testi- 

 mony to the name He-ywriidac. In front of my lodging there was a 

 large clump of cannas (Indian shot), and this was the resort, as I had 

 frequently noted elsewhere, of (Jalpudcs ctJdins, a very handsome 

 skipper. A few of the life-histories of the Hespenidae have been 

 worked out and published in the Juuniql of the Institute of Jamaica for 

 March, 1898, by Mr. E. S. Panton. He has there a good account of 

 the habits and early stages of Achhjodcs philonon, Fab., I'l/njus iiumti- 

 ragiis, Keak., I'ericharcs ( = ('ari/stiis) corydun, Fab., and Faiupkila 

 phylacus, Drury. Speaking about P. eorydon he says that the $ lays 

 her eggs late in the evening most frequently on the leaf of the sugar- 

 cane, but also on Indian corn and on a grass. Panic it iii )naxi)nn>n. 

 The females ol)served were seen to lay their eggs singly, either on the 

 upper or under side of the leaf. Continuing my hasty tour round the 



