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10. Callidryas Eubule. Abundant at all times and in most 

 situations, particularly in open pastures and ruinates. 



1 1 . Callidryas Neleis. This handsome species I did not meet 

 with in 1845 till near the end of June, when it occurred on the 

 Hampstead Road ; a few specimens I took afterwards in the same 

 locality, but it continued very scarce until the following April ; 

 about the middle of which month it suddenly became very abun- 

 dant between Sabito Bottom and Cave, being for some weeks the 

 most common species of butterfly to be seen. Its habits are much 

 the same as those of the larger Pierida generally ; flitting along 

 the low bushes that fringe the road-sides with an unsteady but 

 somewhat rapid flight, frequently alighting on flowers, and now 

 and then retracing its course. In June it was similarly abundant 

 on the Hampstead Road and around Content ; and on my arrival 

 at Kingston in July, on my way to England, this was found to 

 be the most numerous species in that locality. It would be in- 

 teresting to know if these alternations of abundance and scarcity 

 are periodical. 



12. Gonepteryx Lyside. Very rare : a single specimen or two 

 occurred in December and January in the vicinity of Bluefields. 



13. Terias Elathea. 



14. Terias Euterpe. 



15. Terias Dina. 



16. Terias Hyona. 



17. Terias (sp. nov.). These five species of Terias are common 

 at most periods of the year : in spring they accompany the Pie- 

 rides and Callidryas Neleis in their dancing flight along the road- 

 side bushes ; more particularly Dina and Hyona. I may remark of 

 all these, as well as of the genera just named, that in a road they 

 do not hover about or play backward and forward as some but- 

 terflies do, but pursue the course of the road, one way or the 

 other, and that, notwithstanding the occasional interruptions of 

 alighting, with pretty constant regularity, mostly keeping to that 

 side of the road on which each may happen to be. I think I 

 have remarked that most go the same way, though without any 

 association. Occasionally one may be observed to return upon 

 its course ; but in such case it commonly pursues the new direc- 

 tion with the same regularity until out of sight. 



But the more proper and peculiar resorts of the Teriades are 

 large open plains, old pastures and guinea-grass pieces, especially 

 the former two, which are generally overrun with herbaceous 

 weeds, as the Ascley'iadea, various species of Cassia and Papilio- 

 nacece. The smaller kinds in particular are very abundant in 

 such situations, as Elathea and Euterpe, and the delicate little 

 white one with narrowly black-edged wings, which appears unde- 



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