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WEST INDIES AND SOUTH AMERICA 
Mandeville, Manchester Parish (Jan. 16—22), ranges from 
2000 ft. to about 2200 ft. It proved very poor in insect life. 
Mackfield and Ramble, close together, the former in Westmor¬ 
land, the latter in Hanover (Jan. 24—Feb. 2). A delightful rolling 
country of pasture intermixed with woods. About 800-1000 ft. 
Unfortunately the very headquarters of the collector’s greatest foe 
in Jamaica—that tiny horror, the Tick. 
Montego Bay, St. James (Feb. 2—5); the collecting ground 
ranges from the sandy shore to the top of a wooded hill of about 
300 ft., and was fairly productive. 
Walderston, Manchester (Feb. 6—20); the collecting ground 
ranged from about' 2500 ft. to 2900 ft. (Mile Gully Mountain). 
An almost waterless district, but the tops of the hills are covered 
with woods. One day (Feb. 16) was spent at Christiana in a gorge 
cut through Trappean Conglomerate, about seven miles to the north 
of Walderston. Height about 2000 ft. in a well-watered country. 
Spanish Town, St. Catherine (Feb. 20—23); near the edge of an 
extensive plain, its elevation above the sea must be inconsiderable. 
Port Antonio, Portland (Feb. 24—March 5) ; from the coast my 
collecting ground extended to the summits of Park Mount on 
the east and Shotover on the west, both about 1000 ft. One 
wonders what son of Oxford gave the green hill its honoured name. 
Speaking generally, insects were commonest near the sea and on 
the slopes of the hills up to 1000 ft. Flies, bees, and wasps were 
especially scarce at 2000 ft. and over. 
JAMAICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
Danainae .—Danaida archippus , Fabr., 4 Only seen at Port 
Antonio. Found about Asclejoias , also at Rose and other flowers; 
it is hard to kill. The Jamaican specimens of this butterfly differ 
from those from South America in the following particulars. They 
are brighter; they have less black along the veins; there is more 
fulvous at the tip of the fore-wing; the white spots beyond the 
cell are outlined and sometimes suffused with fulvous. 
Danaida ( Tasitia) jamaicensis, Bates. 2 2 near the stream which 
the Kingston-Castleton road crosses close by Temple Hall; a £ near 
Ramble Post Office, another ^ near Walderston. Like the pre¬ 
ceding, this is hard to kill. The form met with on the mainland, 
D. eresimus , Cram., which appears to be distinct, has much more 
black about it, e.g. along the costa and the veins. 
Satyrinae .—-Calisto zangis , Fabr. 26 specimens. Very generally 
