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Freesia. (Sudan, 1909). The scent in the male was confirmed, a 
faint odour was suspected in the female. 
[. Metura cipris, Eabr. (Brazil, 1878). 
Phoebis argante, Eabr. (Brazil, 1876, 1878). 
Bhabdodryas trite, Linn. (Brazil, 1878). 
Callidryas eubule , Linn. (Brazil, 1878). 
Eritz Muller perceived a musk-like odour in the males of the 
above four species; it was unusually strong in cipris, very distinct 
in argante, faint in trite and eubule . In the females of argante and 
eubule he found a very strong peculiar odour, in which some volatile 
acid seemed to predominate.] I give my results :— 
Phoebis agarithe, Boisd. (Tobago, 1907). Of three males ex¬ 
amined, two yielded a scent noted as being “ sweet, neither strong 
nor pleasant.” 
Callidryas eubule, Linn. (West Indies, Northern Coast of S. 
America, 1907). In no less than thirty-two out of the thirty-three 
males tested a distinct scent was readily perceived, indeed in the 
great majority of cases it is noted as strong, twice as very strong. 
In quality the scent was agreeable (Mr. Abell termed it delicious) 
and was compared by me to Stephanotis, or Freesia, but Eritz Muller 
had termed it musk-like; and Miss Murtfeldt had spoken of it as 
“ a slight violet odour.” 1 With the twenty-two females examined 
the result was very different; in nine it was negative, but in the 
remaining thirteen a scent was detected, which, though usually 
described as very slight, or slight, and never as strong, was often 
distinct enough. In quality the scent of the female eubule was dis¬ 
agreeable; somewhat sweet, but recalling bad pomade, or rancid 
butter, or butyric acid (as Dr. Dixey aptly suggested of another 
butterfly). 
Gonepteryx rhamni , Linn. (Algeria, 1905). Gonepteryx cleopatra, 
Linn. (Algeria, 1905). I give my observations on the scents in these 
butterflies in full, as originally published. 2 
“At Hammam Meskutine, Algeria, on March 15th, 1905, while 
examining my captures towards the close of the day prior to writing 
the data on their envelopes, I was struck with the sweet scent of a 
male Gonepteryx cleopatra , Linn. All the three dead specimens 
which I had taken that day had the scent, but in two it was faint. 
On March 19th, at Bougie, I confirmed this in a living specimen, 
describing the scent at the time as “ sweet, rich, thick—suggesting 
Freesia.” 
1 Scudder, “ Butterflies of the Eastern United States,” vol. ii. p. 1047. 
2 Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1905, pp. xxxv., xxxvi. 
