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look more like moths than butterflies. Many of the Trinidad 
skippers are yellow, brown, or black and white, but some of them 
are richly marked with red or blue. 
These rough notes may be summed up as follows : — • 
1. The study of butterflies is one which i3 easily pursued, 
and much enhances the pleasure of travel. 
2. The habits of the different families and genera are very 
characteristic, so much so that the mere flight of a 
butterfly will often give a fairly accurate indication 
of its place in the series. 
3. Some butterflies are extremely local in Trinidad as 
elsewhere e.g. a yellow and black Ileliconius which 
I have seen only at the Pitch Lake: Riordina 
lysippus of which a single specimen was taken at 
Carenage : Anteros formosus seen in one place at 
Diego Martin, and several butterflies obtained nowhere 
but in St. Ann’s Valley. 
4 .For this reason remote districts and valleys should be 
carefully explored whenever opportunity offers for 
new species may thus be discovered e.g., Tithorea 
flavescens. I was told in the British Museum that 
the Trinidad butterflies were worked out but this 
assertion T think is is not borne out by our experi- 
ence here. 
o. All butterflies belonging to genera such as Eurema , 
Dismorphia or Ileliconius should be carefully collected 
also all skippers. New species may very likely be 
discovered in this way. 
6. Protective mimicry is very fully illustrated in the but- 
ter flies of Trinidad e.g. 
(a.) Mimicry of one species distasteful to birds by 
another not so protected as in the case of mimicry 
of various- Danaince by Ileliconincv , Dismorphia , 
Hypolimnas and others. 
