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Sphingidae. —Dilophonota ello, Linn., three. 
Hotodontidae.— Dicentria (Phya) laciniosa , H. Edw., one. 
Geometric ae. —The large and variable Boarmiid Oxydia vesulia, 
two, a Jamaican acquaintance; Aids syrniaria, Guen., a female 
[not very unlike our B. betularia ]; Semioihisa enotata , Guen., one [a 
moth very like our “ Peacock ”]; Eucosmia affinitata, Guen., one 
[obviously allied to our Scotosia dubitata\. 
Pyralidae.— By far the most remarkable was the huge ochreous, 
very S^hinx-lik® 1 Galleriid, Mydobiapalmcea , H.-Schaff., four inches in 
expanse. I got two specimens, whereas the British Museum has but 
one [Plate III., Fig. 8]. Hardly less remarkable is Terastia meticnlo - 
satis, Guen., which appeared to be rather common, at all events I 
got four specimens ; though not quite so large, its resemblance to our 
Angle-shades is striking, there are prominent tufts of scales along 
the sides of the abdomen; Glyphodes quadristigmalis, Guen., one ; G. 
nitidalis , Cram., one; Maruca testutalis, Guen., one. 
The large Skipper, Perichares corydon, Fabr., turned up in one of 
the court-yards by day, and a recently dead specimen of the Nym- 
phaline, Gatonephele nyctimus, Westw., a male, was found on the 
floor. 
With the moths were numerous big Locustids, a green Phane- 
ropterine, allied to the Katydid, and a brown Conocephaline, as well 
as the beetle, Phileurus valgus , Linn. 
On March 29th, proceeding to La Guaira to join the homeward- 
bound steamer, we got out at Zigzag station, 1500 ft. above the sea, 
and completed the journey on foot, a walk that I should much like 
to repeat. The road, right down to the coast, presented all the 
appearance of very heavy rain within a few days previously. Insects 
were most numerous between the station and about 1000 ft.; below 
this vegetation became sparse, and later on clouds overspread the 
sky. Zinckenia perspectalis, Hiibn,, occurred close to the station. 
The most abundant butterfly was Phydodes leucodesma, with its 
somewhat gliding flight, but P. anieta and Terias albula were also 
common, as was the handsome scarlet and black Heliconius hydarus. 
A much smaller, but lovely black and red butterfly, Eaematera 
pyvamus , Fabr., was taken on the railway track, Other Nymphalines 
captured were Golaenis julia, two; Nica canthara, Doubl., one; Anartia 
amalthea, two; Dynamine sara , three; SyncMoe ladnia , two of the 
dark form, another of f. saundersi, and Cystineura cana , two, a 
the same name, in 1845, for the well-known Tortrix, Cheimatophila hyemcma, Hiibn. 
— Teste J. H. Dnrrant. 
1 Another of the genus is called smerinthoides , 
