268 Mr. P. H. Gosse on the Insects of Jamaica. 



nous, not so thick as in H. nephriticum, though as in that species 

 it sometimes separates when dry ; rufous when divided. Cells 

 brownish olive. Spores oblong, apiculate, differently shaped 

 from those of the other species, and comparable only with those 

 of H. membranaceum, Corda, of which at present nothing more 

 is known than from an unpublished plate. 



*378. Geaster rufescens, P. 



An authentic specimen from Persoon is identical with G. fim- 

 briatus, Fr., and to this belong some of the synonyms in ' Eng. 

 Fl./ especially that of Sowerby. Geaster rufescens, Fr., is quite 

 a different thing, specimens of a small form of which were abun- 

 dant at Thringstone, Leicestershire, a few years since, and a single 

 specimen has occurred at Cliffe. The figures of Schmiedel are 

 indifferent representations of G. fimbriatus. 



379. Geaster mammosus, Che v. 



An authentic specimen of Sow. t. 401 proves to be this spe- 

 cies. We hope then that the British species, as far as they have 

 at present been discovered, are now correctly referred to their 

 synonyms. 



XXVIII. — On the Insects of Jamaica. By Philip Henry Gosse. 

 [Continued from p. 181.] 



35. Victorina Steneles. This fine species is found throughout 

 the year, but is common only during the summer months. It 

 haunts the bushes and herbage, at the edges of woods, the sides 

 of roads and mountain-paths, beating about with an irregular 

 motion, not often alighting. When alarmed, its flight is strong 

 and rapid, but not high. Most of the specimens that one sees 

 are more or less damaged by beating. It is widely distributed 

 over mountain and lowland; in the bridle-paths of the Cotta 

 Wood, near Content, it is, I think, more numerous than else- 

 where. 



In October, a large spinous caterpillar, black with red spots, 

 furnished with two longer clubbed spines near the head, was 

 brought me, which produced a short, thick chrysalis, of a beau- 

 tiful pale green hue. From this in a very few days emerged the 

 present butterfly. As the larva was ready for its change when 

 I obtained it, I do not know its food. 



36. Marpesia Eleucha. This occurred sparingly during the 

 summer, both in the lowlands and on the Hampstead Road. It 

 affects shrubs and small trees, at a height of six or eight feet 

 from the ground, rather than herbage, fluttering over them with 

 rapid vibration of the wings ; it is however easily alarmed, and 

 not readily approached. 



