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WEST INDIES AND SOUTH AMERICA 
Savanilla, Colombia, lat. 11° 10' N. 
December 22nd s 1906. 
Having a few hours to wait at this miserable port, we determined 
to investigate some low wooded hills a little to the west of the pier. 
This pier is rather a poor affair, a mile in length, and the wind was 
so high as to make walking along it somewhat nervous work. The 
captain told me that a German steamer had gone right through it not 
long before. On reaching the land we struck off to the right along 
the shore for a mile or so, and then turned inland into a scrubby 
forest. A high wind was much against collecting, and the sunshine 
was intermittent. We found the forest dry in the extreme, all 
vegetation parched and run-to-seed. The seed-vessels seemed to be 
endowed with every provision of nature to ensure their distribution; 
burrs of every sort and kind tangled up the net into a hopeless 
mass, and when I got back to the ship my flannel trousers were 
plastered over, so that it took half an hour to remove the adherent 
vegetable matter; the most troublesome foe was a small pod which 
adhered by invisible hooks, and on trying to remove it broke up into 
several sections. Never again will I wear flannels in such a place. 
The most exciting beast that we came across was an Iguana, a 
lizard nearly four feet long, which ran off like a rabbit. Mrs. Long- 
staff also saw a large Snake. 
Butterflies were comparatively scarce, and I secured but twelve 
species. The commonest by far was the black and white Skipper, 
Heliopetes laviana , and next in point of numbers came its white 
congener, H. arsalte , Linn.; with them I took two of the pretty 
little H. domicella , Erichs. Other Skippers, though less taking in 
appearance, were of better quality, viz. Thymele grenadensis, Schaus, 
of which I saw several, but only captured one in very poor condition ; 
and Vehilius illudens, Mabille, of which the specimen brought home 
was the only example seen during the whole tour; it was taken on 
the seashore. 
The only Nymphalines were one Cystineura cana , Erichs., and 
three of the little Phyciodes frisia , Poey. 
The Erycinid Hamearis erostratus , Hew., not unlike our Nemeo - 
bins lucina, but with the habits of Chrysophanus phlaeas , was not 
uncommon. Catochrysops hanno, Stoll, was the only Blue seen. 
Two large males of Callidryas sennae, both “ wet,” had a strong 
scent like that of Freesia. I took a very worn specimen of what 
would appear to be Sphaenogona gratiosa. Terias was represented 
