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Callidi'yas eubule was not common, but I took a wet-season male, 
which had a strong scent, suggesting Stephanotis, though less agree¬ 
able. Terias (Furema) was represented by one albula , Cram., and 
two nise, Cram. One of the latter, an intermediate male, possibly 
had a slight scent, the other, a large wet-season female, certainly 
had a slight sweet scent, which my wife confirmed. Of Daptonoura 
lycimnia , Cram., which appeared to be rather common, I secured 
two males, both with a strong, sweet, flowery scent, perhaps like 
that of Freesia. I managed to get one example, a male, of the very 
characteristic Fnantia (DismorpMa) licinia , Cram., of the Trinidad 
form acutipennis. 
A female Papilio cymochles , Doubl., was the sole representative 
of the group; it had a somewhat musty odour. 
The Skippers were represented by single individuals of Cecropterus 
aunus, Fabr., Hesperia syrichthus, Fabr., and Prenes nyctelius, Latr., as 
well as a pair of Vehilius venosus , Plotz. 
Naturally enough in the enthusiasm caused by my first intro¬ 
duction to the South American butterfly fauna I had no time to 
devote to other orders, yet two or three things that obtruded them¬ 
selves were taken, such as the Honey-bee, Apis ligustica ; the variable 
Bug, Hypselonotus fulvus , De Geer; an Ant, and a bright, yellow-green 
Acridian of very cryptic habit found sitting on the underside of a 
leaf of one of the Melastomaceae , when it was touched, much dark 
liquid, soluble in water, exuded from its mouth. 1 
So ended an all too brief glimpse of Trinidad, an island which, 
whether looked at from the point of view of geography, geology, or 
natural history, clearly forms part of Venezuela, and cannot be 
considered as one of the Antilles. 
La Guaira, Venezuela, lat. 10° 45' N. 
December 20th, 1906. 
The R.M.S. “ Tagus ” entered the small harbour of La Guaira about 
midday. La Guaira is a name that gets into the papers now and 
again when the tortuous politics of Venezuela try the temper of 
Europe or America more than usually, but in the minds of most 
people it is associated with Kingsley’s great romance. We had heard 
it spoken of as the Aden of the Caribbean Sea, but we found it 
much less hot than we had expected. 
The elaborate formalities of the officials kept us from landing 
1 Compare Phymateus in South Africa, p. 201, supra. 
