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Prenes nyctelius, Latr. Three. Mandeville, Shotover, East 
Harbour, Port Antonio. 
Prenes ares , Feld. One. Shotover, Port Antonio. 
Anastrus simplicior , Moschl. One. Cold Harbour, Port Antonio. 
Rests with the wings fully expanded. 
Acolastus amyntas , Linn. One, taken by Mrs. Longstaff in the 
Botanic Garden, Castleton. 
Serdis insolita, Butl. ( aurinia , Plotz). One of each sex taken at 
the foot of Park Mount, Port Antonio, about 2.30 p.m. A very 
distinct insect identified by Mr. H. H. Druce with Plotz’s excellent 
figure of the male from a Jamaican specimen. Mr. Godman 1 says of 
the figure that it probably belongs to Limochores or Serdis . Mabille 
places it in his genus Serdis under the heading “ Species non visae.” 2 
Ephyriades otreus, Cram. One specimen, near Chancery Hall, 
Constant Spring; settled on a projecting grass stem with wings fully 
expanded. 
Hesperia syrichthus , Fabr. Twelve. Generally distributed over 
the Island, especially common at Mandeville and Port Antonio. A 
somewhat variable species within limits. It rests with the wings 
fully expanded. 
Hylephila phylaeus, Drury. Five. This brilliant little golden 
Skipper was common near the shore, Port Antonio. 
Gatia drurii , Latr. Two. Below Gordon Town, circa 800 ft., and 
on the Park Mount Road, Port Antonio, circa 600 ft. It is very 
hard to see. It rests with all the wings up, the fore-wings much 
sloped back. 
Oatia vesuria , Plotz. One, taken by my Portuguese servant in 
the garden at Walderston. There was but one specimen of this 
species in the National Collection and that was unnamed. 
Morys Valerius , Moschl. Four. Two above Constant Spring, 
circa 700 ft. ; two on Shotover, Port Antonio. 
Thymelicus vibex, Hubn. (The yellowest form: T. combinata, 
Plotz, teste H. H. Druce.) A female came to light at Montego 
Bay. 
Cymaenes silius, Latr. One, in the wood above the Jam Factory, 
Constant Spring. 
1 Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), xx., p. 152 (1907). 
2 Genera Insectorum, Hesperidae, p. 144. On April 5th, 1908, Mr. H. H. Druce 
wrote saying that among some oddments in the British Museum he had come across 
the type of Butler’s Pamphila insolata. The specimen is from Jamaica (labelled 
insolita), and appears to be identical with my insects. Butler’s name has priority 
since Plotz published his description in 1888. (See Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 
p. 483.) 
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