1898.] 201 



$ . Fore-wings while. Costa black, spotted with white. Apex black. Apical 

 black commences at termination of 2nd subcostal nervule, and runs in a slightly 

 indented curved line to hind margin, where it terminates on 3rd median nervule. 

 Hind-wings white, with very minute black spots at termination of nervules, slightly 

 yellowish at anal angle. Fringes yellowish. 



Under-side of both wings as in male, but paler. 



Hah. : Port Royal Mountains and Blue Mountains, Jamaica. 

 In Coll. H. J. Adams, ^ ? . Nat. Hist. Mus., ^. 



In a series of six males and three females of this species the 

 males exhibited considerable variation in the width of the black mar- 

 ginal borders, two or three having these narrower than in the spe- 

 cimen described. In one example the border of the hind-wings is 

 very narrow, and only extends as far as the 2nd discoidal nervule, 

 and on both the 1st and 2nd median nervules is a black spot. The 

 females appear to be constant. 



This does not appear to be a common insect. I first met with it 

 this year, early in March, at Cold Spring on the Port Eoyal Moun- 

 tains ; I afterwards found it at Content and Guava Eidge on the Port 

 Eoyal Mountains, and at Cinchona, Eesource and Berwick, on the 

 Blue Mountains. I never saw it on the plains, all that I captured 

 being taken at elevations of from 2500 to 5500 feet ; there is, however, 

 a specimen in the Nat. Hist. Mus. labelled "Kingston, Jamaica." 

 During the whole of March and April, when I was collecting on the 

 Port Eoyal and Blue Mountains, I only managed to get about a dozen 

 specimens ; they are difficult to capture, owing to the mountainous 

 nature of the country and their swift flight, not unlike that of a Golias. 



I have named this very distinct new species after Mr. Herbert J. 

 Adams, of Enfield, the well known collector of Exotic Lepidoptera. 



Lynton Villa, Sydney Road, Enfield : 

 August, 1898. 



SPRING- BUTTERFLIES IN PROVENCE. 

 BY THE REV. H. C. LANG, M.D., &c. 



Encouraged by the success of some of my friends in their 

 collecting at Digne, and having been posted up, as regards this locality, 

 by Mr. W. E. Nicholson, I determined to visit Provence early this 

 season, the Bhopalocera of the district being my chief object. Start- 

 ing from home on the ISth of April, I arrived at Digne on the 21st, 

 via Paris, Lyons, antl Grenoble, accompanied by my wife ; leaving 

 behind an unusually dispiriting spring, we experienced the agreeable 

 sensations generally felt by trave]ler.=i on finding themselves trans- 



