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Papilioninae.— Papilio polydamas, Linn., f. polycrates , Hopff. 7 
specimens. Constant Spring (common), below Gordon Town, 
Spanish Town; not seen on the high land. Fond of flowers, especially 
Bougainvillea , fluttering as it feeds, as many of the family do. A 
male observed flying in deep shade about 5 p.m., settled on a dead 
leaf and closed its wings; the underside was distinctly cryptic. 
All my specimens are of the insular form in which the marginal 
spots of the fore-wing are paler, those of the hind-wing greener, than 
in South American examples: the marginal pattern on the underside 
of the hind-wing is coarser, with more brick-red and more white 
in it. 
Hesperidae. — Budamus proteus, Linn. 9 specimens. Constant 
Spring, below Gordon Town, Port Antonio (common). Has a quiet 
Fig. 10 .—Eudamus proteus at rest, (a) Side view; (6) from above. 
flapping flight; at rest all its wings are nearly upright, but the fore¬ 
wings much sloped back, the tails at right angles to the plane of the 
hind-wings. Frequents Bougainvillea flowers. (See Fig. 10.) 1 
Budamus catillus , Cram. Two specimens, taken late in the 
afternoon in a wood at Montego Bay; flight not very swift. (See 
cover of this book.) 
Thymele grenadensis, Schaus. A very worn specimen on the 
bank of the Rio Cobre, Spanish Town; it settled repeatedly on the 
same spot. 
Telegonus hurga, Schaus. A worn specimen, in the Mahogany 
Wood, Rockalva, Ramble. It was very bold, returning again and 
again to rest on the same fallen tree. 
Berichares corydon, Fabr. Two. Mackfield, Montego Bay. 
See also Chapter X., § 11, infra. 
