86 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS NEW RECORDS OF BUTTERFLIES FROM NORTH ANDROS, BAHAMAS 1 Donald J. Harvey,^ John W. Peacock 3 ABSTRACT: Seven previously unrecorded butterfly species are reported from North Andros, Bahamas. These are: Calisto sibylla Bates (Satyridae); EunicamonimaStoll,Eunica tatila tatilista Kaye. and Vanessa atalanta rubria Fruhstorfer (Nymphalidae); Hemiargus ceraunus ceraunus Fabricius and Brephidium exilis isophthalma Herrich-Schaffer (Lycaenidae); and Eurema nicippe Cramer (Pieridae). These seven new records increase to 60 the number of butterfly species now known from North Andros. The first comprehensive list of butterflies for Andros Island, Bahamas, was provided by Clench (1977). Additional collecting on North Andros by the authors during 1978 (DJH) and 1983 (JWP) has added seven new species to the North Andros fauna. The following are accounts of these new Andros records, with notes on locality, dates of capture, habitat and behavior. To conform with Clench (1977), the sequence of taxa in Riley (1975) is followed. Specimens are deposited in the authors' personal collections; a voucher oiEunica tatila tatilista taken by JWP is deposited in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh) and vouchers of the four species collected by DJH have been deposited in both the Car-negie Museum of Natural History and the Allyn Museum of Ento-mology (Sarasota). Satyridae Calisto sibylla Bates Two females and a male of this butterfly were collected on 6 June 1 978 near the town of Red Bay. The adults were local in distribution and were only seen in a narrow strip of shrubby vegetation, about 1 5 meters long, that bordered the road between the shore and the settlement of Red Bay. The butterflies flew close to the ground, usually underneath the shrubs. Adults appeared in the open only when visiting the flowers of Cordia bahamensis Urban (Boraginaceae). All specimens were collected while visiting these flowers. Other shrubs along this strip included Forestiera segregata, Metopium toxiferum, Jacquinia sp. and Coccoloba sp. Beyond these shrubs was a plain dominated by sedges, with some grasses and scattered palmettos. During brief visits to this site on 9 and 13 June 1978, two additional specimens, a female and a male, were also taken. Eup-1 Received September 6, 1988. Accepted November 7, 1988. ^Department of Zoology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712. Current address: Department of Entomology, NHB Stop 127, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. 20560. 3 185 Benzler Lust Road, Marion, Ohio 43302. ENT. NEWS 100(2): 86-88, March & April, 1989
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