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WEST INDIES AND SOUTH AMERICA 
Alongside the right bank of the mountain stream was a com¬ 
paratively level strip of ground, some six or eight yards wide, damp, 
and in places swampy, covered for the most part with the Life- 
plant (j Bryophyllum calycinum, Salisb.). The place was over¬ 
shadowed by what appeared to be a species of Coral-tree, or “ Bois 
immortel,” as it is called in Trinidad (Erythrina sp.), and there was 
an undergrowth of Wild Coffee and a few Bamboos. As I pushed 
along, my movements suddenly disturbed a number of butterflies, 
which fluttered about in clouds, looking with their transparent wings 
almost like Tipulae , only more ghost-like. Sometimes their wings 
would catch the light with an iridescent gleam, but more usually 
little could be seen save the opaque white marks upon their wings. 
Of course the more thickly scaled forms were more conspicuous, but 
as a rule all the black portions of the insects were invisible. It was 
a wonderful sight, but quite bewildering. Two or three sweeps of 
the net entrapped a dozen or so. I took back that afternoon thirty- 
five specimens, which I imagined included three or four, possibly five 
or six species. In truth, there were eleven species belonging to 
eight genera! 
A visit to the same spot the next day produced a similar result, 
the hour was earlier and the Ithomiines were not so closely packed, 
yet I took home thirty specimens, which proved to belong to nine 
species, three of which I had not taken on the first day. A third 
visit failed to add further to the list, which stands as follows:— 
Athesis clearista , Dbl. & H. 
Ceratinia coeno , Dbl. & H. 
Geratinia dionaea , Hew. . 
Pteronymia latilla , Hew. . 
Pteronymia asopo, Feld. 
Pteronymia victorina, Hew. 
Iihomia agnosia , Hew. 
Ithomia cymothoe , Klug. 
Ithomia iphianassa, Dbl. & H 
Ithomia sylvella , Hew. . . 
Hymenitis andromica, Hew. 
Leucothyris phemonoe, Dbl. 
Hypoleria ocalea , Dbl. & H. 
Aeria agna, Godm. & S. . 
3 
17 (abundant). 
2 
16 (very common). 
3 
2 
6 
8 
6 
1 
19 (abundant). 
3 
1 
1 
The last of these flew higher than the rest, or possibly more 
might have been taken. 
A total of eighty-eight specimens, belonging to fourteen species 
