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of Pyrameis myrinna , Doubl., was captured at the flowers of a Compo¬ 
site creeper near the farmhouse, while the shades of the wood yielded 
the larger game, Victorina stelenes and Amphirene epaphus, Latr.; 
one of the last-named was drinking in the bed of the stream, where I 
had the bad luck to miss a Callicore. But of all the beautiful 
butterflies seen there by far the most startling was my first Morpho. 
A huge bird-like creature sailing down the gully, now giving an 
azure flash, now almost disappearing as the upper surface turns away 
—flash, flash, flash, and it is out of sight! Shortly afterwards I had 
the pleasure of beating out of a bush a male Morpho peleides, Koll., 
and netting it as it flapped away. 
The sole Danaine was a male Danaida archippus , but the 
Acraeines were represented by a number of Actinote antaeas , though 
that species was commoner in the outskirts of the city; of its congener 
A. hylonome, Doubl., I secured but a single specimen. The only 
Erycinids taken were a couple of Charis argyrodines , Bates, and one 
of the conspicuous black, yellow, and scarlet Lymnas jarbus, Fabr. 
Heliconiines were not common, but I took Heliconins chariihonius, 
and two of the beautiful black and red IT. hydarns, Hew. (one of the 
species into which the beautiful II. melpomene , Linn., has been split 
up); the latter were both males, one only of which had a very strong 
odour, like acetylene, or, better, as Mr. G. H. Sworder of Tobago 
(who was familiar with the insect and its scent) suggested, hazeline, 
a preparation of the Witch-hazel ( Hamamelis virginica). This insect 
is tenacious of life. 
I got but one Papilio, but its beauty was striking even among so 
many fine insects, for a male P. cymochles, Doubl. (erithalion zenxis, 
Lucas), feeding on the flowers of Lantana is a sight worth going far 
to see. Its handsome black, scarlet, and cream-coloured livery is in 
itself a feast of colour, but when that marvellous violet-blue gloss is 
seen, words altogether fail one. 
Among the Lycaenids the wide ranging Leptotes cassius was by far 
the commonest, the sexes occurring in about equal numbers; next 
in order of abundance came the chocolate-scented Tmolus palcgon, 
Cram., which frequented the flowers of a Composite shrub (? Vernonia 
scorpioides, Pers.); of Theda rufofusca, Hew., I captured two, but of 
the following only one each: T. crolus , Cram.; T. togarna, Hew.; 
Theclopsis tephraea, Hiibn. (this had a peculiar, strong, rather dis¬ 
agreeable odour); Callipsyche thins, and Catochrysops hanno, this last 
sitting head downwards and opening its hind-wings at intervals. 
The Pierines were represented by a fair number of species, but 
few of them were common, indeed, of the following single specimens 
