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butterfly. 1 It is some small consolation to me that although the great 
naturalist observed points that escaped my notice, he did not observe 
that the male has a treacly scent. The beautiful scarlet and black 
Didonis biblis was common enough above 300 ft. elevation, fluttering 
about the bushes, but many of the specimens were worn. Here, 
again, my deficiencies as an observer are painfully evident, for I did 
not detect any scent in a butterfly in which Fritz Muller found no 
less than three ! 2 While the light grey Gystineura cana , Erichs., 
occurred nearer the sea-level ( e.g . at La Brea), it was extremely 
abundant up the Ariapeta path from 400 to 1200 ft. With the 
colouring of a Satyrine it has almost the flight of a Neptis. Butler’s 
name cowiana would appear to have been given to a melanic 
specimen, but with a long series before me I quite satisfied myself 
that it is no “good species.” The handsome green and black Victorina 
stelenes was fairly common. 
In England one is apt to forget that the Erycinidae are an 
extensive family, but short as my experience in Trinidad was, I 
made the acquaintance of six species: of Lemonias pseudo-crispus, 
Westw., I took but one; of the small, elegant, delicate, Satyr-like 
creature Mesosemia tenera, Westw., I took two specimens in a swamp 
just above the reservoir at St. Ann’s; at San Juan I saw four or five 
little butterflies dancing together in the sun, perhaps courting, but 
only managed to secure one of them, which proved to be Charis 
argyrodines , Bates; of C. avius , Cram., I saw two or three in the 
same swamp as the M. tenera. From the Pitch Lake I brought 
home two Nymphidium molpe, HUbn., both females, while near the 
favourite spot up the Ariapeta path I found a male of N. lamis, 
Cram., at rest on a leaf with its wings fully expanded. 
The Blues were interesting : the elegant Leptotes cassius occurred 
both at St. Ann’s and La Brea, being identical with specimens 
taken in Venezuela, but quite unlike the Jamaican L. theonus ; 3 
Catochrysops hanno was also met with both at La Brea and St. 
Ann’s, but appeared to be confined to circumscribed spots; of 
Polyniphe dumenilii, three were taken at St. Ann’s; two of them 
rejoiced in the pig-sty odour, though it was comparatively faint. 
One of them was a very large female, of which Mr. H. H. Druce 
says that the upper side of the fore-wings is more suffused than in 
continental specimens. It is curious that Mr. Kaye with his great 
experience in Trinidad, has met with only three specimens of this 
1 See above, p 264. 
2 See below, p. 501; also Appendix, §§ I., IV. 
3 See above, p. 285. 
