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several tall spikes of the handsome ground-orchid, Phams grandi- 
folius , Lour., which I had long grown in my hot-house at Putney. 1 
Now for our butterflies. The only Danaines met with were 
Radena similis, Linn., of which one example was captured on a 
Composite flower, and the gorgeous purple-glossed Euploeine, Trepsi- 
chrois midamus , Linn. ( superha , Herbst). This very striking insect 
was not uncommon at the flowers of Lantana camara, Linn., indeed 
what Oriental butterflies did before this Neotropical Verbena was 
introduced into the East I know not. Be that as it may, I secured 
two males and four females of midamus. As is so often the case 
with members of this group, this butterfly is hard to kill; again, 
when it is pinched, a yellow juice exudes, which appeared to have 
no marked taste, but one of the females had such a powerful 
acetylene-like odour as to be clearly perceptible when in the net. 
The Satyrines were represented by Lethe eonfusa , Auriv., of 
which two were secured, two Yphthimas , and a Mycalesis. The 
latter, M. mineus, Cram., f. chinensis, Leech, was rather common; 
two of the specimens taken were “ dry,” three “ intermediate tending 
to dry,” and one “ intermediate tending to wet.” Of Yphthima 
hilhneri , Kirby, which was quite common, four wet-season specimens 
were taken, two <£ two <j>, also two ^ that were “intermediate 
wet.” Of Y. avanta , Moore, two “ wet ” examples were taken; it 
was only moderately common; specimens observed at rest did not 
exhibit the Satyrine habit of “ listing.” 
A little below the Peak, near the funicular railway, I saw 
three or four Clerome eumeus, Drury—the only Morphine butterfly 
that I came across during my long journey—it appeared to be a 
somewhat solitary fly and rather fond of shade; somehow it was not 
easy to net and I secured only one specimen. 
Curiously enough the only Nymphalines among my Hongkong 
captures are two Gupha erymanthis , Drury, and two species of Neptis , 
though it is possible I may have seen some Precis. Both Neptis 
ophiana , Moore, and N. eurynome, Westw. (but ? leucothoe , Cram.), 
were fairly common; of the first I brought home two, of the latter 
five specimens. 
1 In January, 1907, it was my singular good fortune to come across two plants 
of this same orchid in the Mahogany Wood, Rockalva estate, Ramble, Jamaica. 
This extraordinary instance of wide distribution excited the admiration of P. H. 
Gosse [“A Naturalist’s Sojourn in Jamaica, 1851,” p. 137, where the plant is given 
its synonym P. tankervilliae, Dryand.]. I have, however, been informed since by 
Mr. W. Fawcett that this plant was introduced into Jamaica about 120 years ago, 
and is now common all over the island. See Fawcett and Rendle, “ Flora of 
Jamaica,” Vol. I., pp. 108-109. 
