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Spanish and in English. In the former language it maintains its 
primitive meaning of “ large,” as in Rio Grande. That is probably 
why it occurs in the phrase “ Grand Hotel,” a building of which the 
grandeur is not obvious. To a visitor to that hostel I would give 
three pieces of advice: (1) Walk delicately across your bedroom 
until you are quite sure that the floor will bear your weight; (2) 
in communicating with the Chinese washerman, use Pidgin English 
in preference to Spanish ; (3) don’t refuse Venezuelan black beans, 
they are much better than they look. But whatever criticisms 
might be passed on the Grand Hotel from the point of view of mere 
human guests, there can be no doubt that to Moths and Locustids the 
arc-light in its patio was extremely attractive. It is indeed some¬ 
what remarkable that a light in a courtyard enclosed on all four 
sides, and that near the middle of the city, should attract so many 
insects, but two things may possibly contribute to this result: 
(1) the light is nearly as high as the lowest side of the buildings 
enclosing the patio, and (2) the ground on two sides is higher than 
the city. 
The Visitors’ List is as follows:— 
Syntomidae.— Cosmosoma teuthras, Walk., one; the Arctiid-like 
Eucereon setosum , Sepp., two. 
Arctiidae. — Bertholdia speeularis, H.-Schaff, one, a beautiful 
grey and scarlet insect, with much of the fore-wing transparent; 
Ammalo insulata, Walk., two, paler and not so yellow 1 as the 
Jamaican specimens, a remark which also applies to the British 
Museum series; Utetheisa ornatrix, two; the striking, but I believe 
common, Ecpantheria muzina , Oberth., one; the transparent-winged 
Pyraloid, Psychophasma erosa , H.-Schaff., one. 
Noctuidae. — Cirphis latiuscula , H.-Schaff, one ; the cosmopolitan 
Chloridea (. Heliothis ) armiger, Hubn., one; the Boarmiid-like, purple- 
tinged Synia hypnois, Hubn., one; the huge and variable Erebus odorus, 
Linn, (which was quite common), ten; E. zenobia, Fabr., one; the 
large handsome Ophiusa tropicalis. Guen., one in fine condition; the 
Yellow-underwing Pfypocala filicornis, Guen., one; the White-under¬ 
wing Melipotis fasciolaris, Hubn., one, which Sir George Hampson 
says is an uncommon variety of a common species; another Melipotis 
Sir George says is identical with the specimen marked by Butler, 
surinamensis, Moschl. 
Deltoidae. — Tortricodes 2 orneodalis , Guen., an insect with long 
palpi and curiously incised fore-wings, two. 
1 For the greater prevalence of fulvous or yellow in Jamaican butterflies, as com¬ 
pared with those from the mainland, see p. 290, supra. 
2 Guen6e gave this name to the Deltoid genus in 1854, but he had himself used 
