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Ithomia pellucida, Weym., and Pteronymia asopo , Feld., which he had 
taken at Cocoa Wattie, and he showed me specimens of other butter¬ 
flies which I did not happen upon alive, including Morpko sp. 
The Hope Collection has Terias westwoodii , Boisd., from Tobago. 
Neither the last-named nor P. asopo have as yet been recorded 
from Trinidad. 
The following moths were taken :— 
TJtetheisa ornatrix , Linn., locally abundant about Scarborough, 
more especially in what remains of Fort George; some of the 
specimens had a peculiar somewhat musty odour during life. Except 
a single Pionea taeniolalis, Guen., which was kicked up from herbage, 
all my other moths were victims of the fatal attractions of light. 
These included the Syntomid, Eucereon maia, Druce; an Arctiid, a 
species of Virbia ; a specimen of Poaphila immunis, Guen., resembled 
British Museum specimens from Venezuela, rather than the familiar 
West Indian Noctuid; the lines are different, and, if it is not a 
distinct species, it would appear to form a well-marked local race ; our 
pretty Jamaican friend, Cydosia histrio , turned up again; the Quadrifid 
Pleonectyptera paueula, Walk., is a small reddish-grey Geometer¬ 
like moth; then the Deltoid, Tortricodes orneodalis, was an old 
acquaintance. The Geometers were represented by the reddish im- 
sodes metaspilata , Walk., and the bright green Tachyphyle ( Dichorda ) 
iris, Butl. 
The commonest Pyrale was perhaps the ochreous, dark-bordered 
Nacoleia ebuleaiis , Guen.; then there were Diatraea saccharalis , Fabr., 
Azochis gripusalis , Walk., and the Chrysaugine, Tosale oviplagalis, 
Walk. 
Parasol-ants were extremely destructive to Mr. Thornton’s 
young cacao plants, attacking them when they had but few leaves 
and none to spare. Vigorous efforts to destroy the nests met with 
but indifferent success. M. Forel has determined the species to be 
Alia cephalotes , Linn., var. polita, Smith. The black Odontomachus 
haematodes, which was to be found under dead leaves, etc., both 
bites and stings severely, but the effect fortunately passes off in a few 
minutes. 
Near the shore to the east of Scarborough the blossoms of the 
Seaside Grape ( Coccoloba uvifera , Jacq., Nat. Ord. Polygoneae) were 
very attractive to Bees and Lycaenids, the most numerous visitors 
being several species of Melipona, among which M. amalthea, Fabr., 
and M. favosa, Fabr., contended on almost equal terms for the first 
place, but another unnamed Melipona is surely the tiniest of all bees. 
Lastly there was an undetermined Augochlora. With the bees were 
