RAKE BUTTERFLIES 
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Victorina steneles, which is a common South American 
butterfly, is also frequently met with in Trinidad. It is brown 
with a broad grpen band, entire on the hind wings and broken 
into spots on the fore wings. There is also an outer row of green 
spots. Indeed so much does green predominate that when the 
insect is flying swiftly overhead, it presents the appearance of an 
entirely green butterfly. 
A remarkable insect is Hypolimnas misippn-s, a common 
butterfly on the North coast of South America, and also occurring 
in Trinidad. It has doubtless been introduced from Africa or 
the East Indies where it is also common, for no other species of 
this genus is known to occur in South America. The male is 
black with a bluish white spot on each wing and is very conspi- 
cuous. The female is a tawny insect, almost exactly like the 
common Danais chrysippus. 
Protogonius ochraceus is a butterfly of somewhat singular 
form. The wings are long and black and brown in colour. 
I he fore wings are arched and have sharp projections in the 
middle of their outer margins. The hind wings have rather long 
expanded tails. This butterfly seems to be local in Trinidad. I 
have only met with it in St. Ann’s Valley. 
The genus Siderone is represented in Trinidad by two or 
three species. The fore wings are pointed, while the hind wings 
are rounded, and slightly dentated with a short projection at tho 
anal angle. These butterflies are rapid flyers and are known 
here as Shoemakers. The under surface of all the species 
resembles more or less a dead leaf, so that detection is difficult 
when the insect settles on tree-trunks or on the ground. This 
protective mimicry of dead leaves is further assisted by the fact 
that there is considerable variability in the species. The upper 
surface of the wings is often brilliantly marked with red and 
blue. 
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The next family of butterflies — the Erycinidce — differ from 
tue last in the fact that the front pair of legs is rudimentary in 
