m 
Tiaps consisting of a lamp over a tray of molasses or oilier 
sticky sweet substance catch a considerable number of crickets and 
beetles. The ordinary moth trap is useful for moths, and often 
catches beetles and crickets. The coco-nut butterfly enters 
it readily and may be taken m numbers. It is a cylindrical 
structure made of mosquito curtain stretched on two lines of 
rattan, about three feet tall, the top is conical and is best made of 
some opaque cloth. In the sides are small doors made, by which 
the insects enter. A bait of over-ripe plantains is hung in the 
middle ol the trap or a lamp is fixed in the centre. The trap is 
. ,VP ky tlie to P in paths or open spaces, and the insects fly 
in by the doors and are unable to escape. I have known as 
many as thirty coco-nut butterflies taken in one of these traps 
in one evening, * 
Further information on injurious insects of the Peninsula is 
still wanted, and any persons who find insects injuring their 
plants would do well to send them for examination with such 
notes as they can make as to their habits, to the Director of the 
botanic Gardens. 
Lefidoptera. 
Amathusia phidippus . — The Coco-nut butterfly is a large in- 
sect, the wings of which are brown above, and paler beneath, .with 
light wavy bands running across both wings and two large* eye- 
shaped spots on the lower wing. It is very common in coco-nut 
estates, hiding among the leaves by day and flying, only at sun- 
down and just before sunrise. The caterpillar is 3 inches lorn-, 
hairy, with a bifid tail. It eats the leaves of the coco-nut palms' 
reducing the leaflets to the mid rib, and when abundant, they 
give the trees a most miserable appearance. I have never heard 
of their destroying a tree completely however, but should they 
become really injurious, they might be caught in moth traps 
baited with bananas, into which they readily go 
Papilio Erithonius . — The caterpillar of this is very destruc- 
tive to orange, lime, and pumelo trees, chiefly however to young 
plants. It is a very striking insect of a dull bluish green with 
black markings, somewhat resembling a bird dropping, but es- 
pecially remarkable for its protruding, when touched, two long 
red fleshy tentacles from its head. The chrysalis is attached to 
the plant by a thread as in most butterflies and is green. The 
butterfly is black with cream coloured spots, a bluish and black 
eye on the upper part of the hind wings and a red spot on the 
inner side at the lower part. Few orange seedlings escape being 
attacked by this caterpillar, and it is requisite in raising young 
plants to keep a look out for this insect which very soon defo- 
liates a young plant and kills it. 
Erionota thrax .— The banana skipper, a brown butterfly with 
3-squared yellow spots on each wing and dull red eyes, body and 
wings dull brown. It is 4 inches across the wings. This very 
common insect is in the caterpillar state very injurious to bana- 
nas, and also attacks palms of various kinds. The eggs are 
