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experimented upon five weeks later was still faintly luminous after 
being 75 minutes in the cyanide-bottle. 1 
The Lycid Thonalmus militaris , Dalm., was taken by day on 
the wing at Mandeville and Walderston. Lady-birds were fairly 
numerous, by far the commonest being Neda sanguinea, Linn., which 
I met with at almost every place I visited, it was taken by sweeping, 
at rest on various plants, etc. BracJiyacantha erythrocephala , Eabr., 
occurred somewhat commonly at Walderston, Christiana, and to the 
east of Port Antonio. Of Hyperaspis connectens , Thunb., I took a 
single example at Christiana. At Port Antonio, close by the sea, I 
captured a single specimen of another Lady-bird which is not repre¬ 
sented at South Kensington. 
Of the Hydrophilidae I took at Walderston under bark of rotten 
wood two specimens of a Gyclonotum , and Mrs. Longstaff found 
another in a snail shell at Mackfield. At Spanish Town among dead 
leaves near the Rio Cobre I obtained four specimens of another 
species of the same genus. In company with them were two of a 
Histerid of the genus Epierus. 
Other miscellaneous beetles were a Diabrotica which came to 
light at Walderston; the British Museum has the species, but it is 
nameless. Of Haltica jamaicensis, Fabr., two turned up at Christiana 
sitting on a plant which looked very like Willow Herb, Epilobium 
hirsutum, Linn. Sweeping at Port Antonio yielded three Ceratoma 
ruficornis , Oliv. At the top of Park Mount, Port Antonio, circa 
1000 ft., three specimens of a distinct, prettily marked Weevil, a 
Cholus of a species not in the British Museum, were taken; two of 
them were obtained by sweeping, the third was found on the under¬ 
side of a stem, apparently seeking shelter from the rain. Of another 
Weevil, a glaucous green insect, which Mr. Gahan assured me 
was not represented in the National Collection, one was taken at 
Constant Spring on a leaf of a species of (?) Acacia , where it was 
strangely conspicuous; two others were found by Miss Walders on 
Tropaeolum in her garden at Walderston. A fungus (? Polyporus) 
on a log by the Rio Cobre at Spanish Town was full of a species of 
Arrhenoplitis , of which there are unnamed Jamaican representatives 
at South Kensington. 
JAMAICAN BUGS. 
The Pentatomid Lorn flavicollis , Drury, a large green fetid beast, 
with a long spine on each shoulder, came to light at Constant Spring 
1 Compare pp. 327, 333, infra. For Fire-flies of Ceylon, see below, pp. 378, 379. 
