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was represented by one anieta, and Dynamine by postverta , Cram., 
theseus , Feld., and sara, Bates; one of the last-named was drinking 
at mnd. A fine Hy'pna dytemnestra , Cram., caused me much tribula¬ 
tion ; I saw it on both my visits to the combe, missing it three times, 
then, as I was returning to its haunt full of good resolutions to keep 
cool and so ensure success, a wretched boy brought it to me in 
triumph, having caught it with his hat! It had been a good specimen 
of the very distinct form rufescens, Butl. The Vanessa-like Anaea 
ryphea, Cram., was rather commoner, and I secured four; one of 
these was captured on the very windy crest of the ridge together 
with Danaida eresimus, a female, easy to catch, but hard to kill; 
Synehloe lacinia , f. saundersii, Dbl. & H., and two males of the 
common Precis lavinia, of the dry-season form corresponding to 
zonalis, Feld., but duller than Jamaican specimens. 1 
My delight was great at taking Callicore marchalii, Guer., a 
butterfly more interesting to Venezuelan politicians from its bearing 
the mystic figure “ 88 ” upon the underside of its hind-wings, than 
for its singular beauty. I also took here my first Didonis biblis , 
Fabr., a handsome black and scarlet butterfly with which I was 
soon to become familiar in Trinidad; it returns again and again to 
the same place, as do our Vanessae. 
Pierines were not common up that combe. Of Meganostoma 
cerbera , Feld., I took a female; of Sphaenogona gratiosa , a male, and 
of S. arbela, three males of an unusual pale form. The now very 
familiar Callidryas eubule was represented by a small, somewhat 
“ dry ” male. I captured one of each sex of Pseudopieris (. Leptalis , 
Dismorphia) nehemia, Boisd. That hillside did not produce a single 
Papilio . 
Skippers, as is often the case in the New World, were more 
remarkable for the number of species than of individuals; those 
met with were : Eeliopetes alana , Eeak. ( adusta , Plotz), a species 
unrepresented in the National Collection, one; B. arsalte , one, a 
creamy white insect with a swift, dashing flight; the large long-tailed 
Eudamus catillus, one; E. eurycles, Latr., one; Arteurotia tractipennis, 
Butl. & Druce, one; the pretty Larentia-YikQ Chiomara asychis, 
Cram., one; one of an unnamed small black species, and one of the 
very widely distributed Hesperia syrichthus. 
To the Lepidoptera taken must be added a specimen of the day¬ 
flying Heterusia atalantata, Guen., an orange-yellow, black-edged 
Geometer (like a glorified Bupalus piniaria, Linn.); also a solitary 
1 This is the P. michaelisi of Fruhstorfer (Stett. Entom. Zeit., 1907, p. 224). See 
remarks on this species in Jamaica, p. 282, supra ; also Chap. X., § 13. 
