5730 Notes on an Excursion 



species will, in nearly all the specimens, be exactly similar; and in 

 another district a species, so nearly allied that if found mingled with the 

 other would be considered a variety, will be found equally constant 

 through all the individuals examined. In Nymphalidae I found 

 nothing new in the forest; in SatyridaB, two Euptychiae, new, — and a 

 small pale blue Satyrus, a charming thing, also new. In Eryciniclae 

 I met with three new species, of genera I am not acquainted with, 

 and four new species of Eurygona, two of which were of a colour 

 quite different from any of the sixty species I had previously taken of 

 the genus, being crimson, with velvety black borders. At Fonte Boa, 

 a few weeks afterwards, I found a third species of the same colours ; 

 so that we have here the commencement of a district where these 

 charming insects offer a new style of colour, in the same way as the 

 mid-Tapajos region yielded four species of the delicate blue-edged 

 group, of which Euoras and Arbas, figured by Mr. Hewitson, are 

 examples. The red species are certainly not found at Ega. In 

 Theclae I acquired two new species; in Hesperidae I met with none 

 new ; in moths, one new Glaucopis, several new Lithosiadae, and two 

 magnificent Bombyces, several NoctuaB and Geometridae new to me. 

 Coleoptera here were remarkably scarce ; but the few r I met with were 

 nearly all new to me. Such were a grand Erotylus, nearest, perhaps, 

 to E. aulicus, Lac. ; four new large Staphylini ; a Scytalinus which w r as 

 flying straight forward near the ground, exactly as the Agrodes, of 

 which I got here a new brassy black species. The Agrodes are not 

 stercorarious ; I have never detected them feeding, but I think they 

 search for particles of putrid matter, or perhaps living insects amongst 

 fallen leaves. I got here two new Doryphorse, one Chrysomela, one 

 or two Hispae, one Chlamys, several Eumolpi, and five species of Hal- 

 tica, but not a single Cassida or Clythridae, and only one or two Ega 

 species of Megalopides. In Lamellicornes my only capture was a 

 large species of Anomala, new, — and one or two Canthidium, Er. ; in 

 Clcrii, one very fine new Ichnea; in Cicindelae, nothing at all; and 

 very few Curculionidae. Neither was there anything in Longicornes, 

 Buprestidae or Elateridae. Finding so very few Coleoptera in the 

 forest in comparison with Ega, I inquired my way to the new clear- 

 ings which the inhabitants of the villages annually make in some 

 direction or other ; and one lovely, warm morning I visited one of 

 them, a very large one, over an acre at least of ground. Here, in the 

 midst of a chaos of felled trees, partially burnt and of many different 

 kinds, I expected to find a great number of Longicornes, in the same 

 way as I had done at Ega, Santarem and Caripe. I crossed the 



