CHAPTER VI ,


 FAMILY MORPHIDAE
Genus :
I. MORPHO PELEIDES (Koll).
 This large and magnificent butterfly may be said
to be generally common through the Colony. Its
flight is heavy and flapping, and it is found only
in the vicinity of thick forests. It emerges from
these to fly up and down forest roads and tracks
but very quickly returns again into the impene-
trable jungle.
 It is a difficult matter to procure a perfect
specimen as the wings are almost always damaged.
I suspect the cause of this to be contact with the
dense tropical vegetation through which the insect
makes its way. It always flies low, keeping fairly
close to the ground. I have taken it in November,
but it occurs also earlier in the year and is probably
double brooded.
 Although the butterfly is so plentiful I have
never succeeded in finding the larva.
2. MORPHO JUsTITiM (G. and S.).
 I have only one specimen of this butterfly which
is recorded from the Cayo.