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common, and I secured two of each sex ; the males had a strong scent, 
which both my wife and I compared to Stephanotis. The males 
were “ wet,” but the females were partly “ dry ” in character, thus 
conforming to the Old World rule that the dry-season coloration is 
more persistent in the female, possibly because the female life being 
the more valuable stands more in need of protective colouring. The 
females had a fainter sweet smell, certainly disagreeable and suggest¬ 
ing pomade. When a cloud passed over the sun, a female Callidryas 
was seen, after some looking about, to settle upon a yellow leaf of the 
Life Plant (Bryophyllum calycinum , Salisb.). 
But if the Nymphaline and the Pierine presented no conspicuous 
new features, it was not so with the Skippers. Eudamus proteus , 
Linn., is a robust insect, nearly black with whitish markings, 
glossed over with a curious brassy-green, but even more remarkable 
are its long broad tails. It was quite common in the little wood, 
resting on the Lantana flowers with its wings up and half open. 1 
It was here, by the way, that I first saw Lantana camara in its native 
province, less luxuriant than in the East, curiously enough, and with 
smaller flowers. Amongst the proteus I found two specimens of E. 
Santiago , Lucas, making in all four species of butterflies, which I am 
told may be regarded as a goodly number for an island with such a 
poor fauna. 
I kicked up a very worn example of the common West Indian 
Noctuid Poaphila immunis , Guen. 
The flowers of a species of Ipomoea attracted a few Honey-bees, 
Apis mellifica , Linn., f. ligustica , Spin., as well as the small grey 
Gentris nitida, Smith. 
Sweeping grass and mixed herbage yielded the Bugs Nezara 
marginata , Beauv., a green insect, and the brown and green Edessa 
meditabunda , Fabr., together with some unnamed Acridians, and a 
Spider with a beautiful silvery pubescence. A rotten calabash fruit 
was swarming with a little Mtidulid beetle of the genus Stelidota. 
Several Dragon-flies are still unnamed. 
Mrs. Longstaff was much interested by finding in the gully several 
eggs of the big Bulimus oblongus , Mull. They were white, calcareous, 
and almost as large as sparrows’ eggs. Dead spires were present on 
all sides, but the only live Mollusc seen was about half-grown. While 
poking about in the gully, I came across two large Toads and a beautiful 
blue and green Lizard. 
It was most satisfactory on returning to the ship to realize that 
in such a flying visit I had proved the scent-bearing properties of 
1 See below, p. 288, Fig. 10. 
