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was an unusually small female of its soberly coloured congener, P. 
polydamas. Lastly, there were two Skippers peculiar to that lane, viz.: 
Xenophanes tristis, Boisd., and Paches geometrinus, Feld., both well 
meriting the specific name of the latter. 
Near the village the Bug, Oncopeltus cingulifer , Stal, was taken 
on the wing, and the pale, prettily banded Wasp, Polybia fasciata, 
Sauss., was common. I noticed the close resemblance between the 
wasp and a small Syrphid which was flying about the same 
plants. 
I tried another and very different collecting ground at El Yalle— 
a combe on the southern side of the ridge lying immediately to the 
north of the village. A narrow path led through low scrub up to 
the crest, perhaps some 500 ft. above the river; most of my collect¬ 
ing was done, however, a couple of hundred ft. or so lower. A short 
distance up, near a lime kiln, several Heliconius charithonius, were 
seen, and close by the small black and white Lycaenid, Polyniphe 
dumenilii, was to be had in abundance; it is strange, but true, that 
this very small butterfly is the proud possessor of one of the strongest 
scents (?) very suggestive of pigsties, or at any rate of pigs ! Several 
other Lycaenids were taken in this combe: Leptotes cassius, a male; 
Catochrysops hanno , two males, one of them with a faint, the other 
with a very strong sweet, Freesia-like scent; Theda rufofusca, Hew., 
two ; Callipsyche thins , Hiibn., 1 six ; but the most interesting Lycaenid 
was a single rather sorry individual, of which Mr. H. H. Druce 
writes: “ This is an interesting specimen. I cannot distinguish it 
from the well-known Eastern and African Zizera gaiha, Trimen 
(pygmaea, Snell.), which has a wide range—India, Ceylon, Malaya, 
Australia, Solomon Is., South Africa (Rhodesia), &c.—but I have 
never seen it from America, and do not know that it has been 
recorded. Can it have been recently introduced ? ” This insect was 
certainly taken at El Yalle, March 26th, 1907, but unfortunately 
my record leaves it in doubt whether it was taken near the river or 
up the combe. 
The only Satyrines found were a few Euptychia hermes , but the 
Nymphalines were as usual well represented, conspicuous amongst 
them being the bright little Cybdelis mnasylus, Dbl. & H., looking 
for all the world like a miniature Hypolimnas misippus ; this is the 
only place that I came across it, but here it was quite common, 
fluttering about low plants, and never settling for long. Phyciodes 
1 Mr. H. H. Druce says: “ This is the same as Thecla agra, Hew.; my males from 
Venezuela have a white tip to the fore-wing, which is not present in Jamaica 
specimens.” 
