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Walk. A male taken at Mackfield.- —Opharus bimaculatus, Dewitz. 
One at Montego Bay. The British Museum has but three specimens, 
all from Central America.— Euglyphia hieroglyphica, Cram. One at 
Constant Spring. [A specimen of this lovely moth was captured 
in the West India Docks, London, in 1867.]— Theages strigosa, 
Walk. Two: Montego Bay, Walderston. The latter specimen 
was taken by a new method : a black hand-maiden of the household 
saw it enter the huge white corolla of the Beaumontia; she deftly 
tied up the mouth of the flower, plucked it with the insect imprisoned, 
and brought it to me in triumph! In that climate this glorious 
creeper has been known to grow 18 feet in one season. More than 
once I saw a humming bird enter one of its capacious white tubes 
and sit down to feed, but whether on honey or on insects was not 
determined. 
bTocTUiDAE .—Agrotis ypsilon, Bott. A specimen of this cosmo¬ 
politan species came to light at Spanish Town.— Perigea subaurea , 
Guen. Common: Mandeville, Mackfield, Walderston, Spanish 
Town. A neatly marked species, recalling Hydroecia nictitans.— 
Prodenia signifera, Walk. One at Mandeville; P. cupentia, Cram. 
Two at Walderston. A pretty chocolate and grey species.— Girphis 
latiuscula, H.-Schaff. Three : Constant Spring, Montego Bay; C. 
numidicola, Guen. Four : Mackfield, Montego Bay, Walderston.— 
Cydosia histrio , Fabr. Three: Constant Spring, Montego Bay. A 
spotted red and black insect with white hind-wings, which I took to 
be an Arctiid.— Monodes nucicolora, Guen. Three : Spanish Town.— 
Poaphila immunis , Guen. Four : Constant Spring, Montego Bay. A 
common West Indian species.— Remigia repanda, Fabr. Abundant: 
Constant Spring, Mandeville, Montego Bay, Walderston. A variable 
insect, some specimens coming very near to the Oriental R. archesia, 
Cram.; R. megas, Guen. One at Walderston.— Erebus odorus , Fabr. 
One specimen of this large, broad-winged moth came to light at 
Constant Spring; another was either disturbed, or flew by day of 
its own accord at Spanish Town.— Homoptera lunata, Drury. Two : 
Mandeville, Montego Ba y.—Melipotis bistriga , Walk. One at Montego 
Bay; M. manipularis, Guen. Two at Spanish Town; M. parens, Walk. 
Two at Spanish Town ; not a common species.— Elousa albicans, 
Walk. One at Spanish Town ; a small grey and white insect. 
Deltoidae.— Ethnistis munitalis, Ledr. Three: Constant Spring, 
Mandeville. 
Hypsidae.— Lauron ergolis, Walk. One at Constant Spring; a 
good mimic of Ithomia . 
Dalcekidae. — Acraga ciliata, Walk. A male at Constant 
