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beautiful Wema and returned to the former camp on 

 Kerenge, visiting Kibibi en route. 



This island, about a mile square, was too big to be 

 thoroughly examined in the time at our disposal ; it has 

 a sugar-loaf, grassy hill rising to the usual height, and a 

 good deal of park land with trees scattered singly or in 

 clumps ; on the north point is some really beautiful old 

 forest, which is bordered at the water's edge by the tallest 

 thicket of Salvia that had been seen on the islands. 

 Crocodiles and Enswa-swa were both scarce on Kibibi. 

 Song thrushes were heard singing sweetly in some number, 

 and the fine blue and red plaintain-eater (" Fulungu ") 

 was noted ; this is usually not found on the smaller 

 islands, though one was seen on Kiuwa. 



Only a single Nephila spider was seen. It was not 

 possible to estimate the butterflies, but it was interesting 

 to find a species of Byhlia^ which had not been seen on 

 any other island, though it was found abundantly at 

 Jinja on the mainland in 1910. 



On March 3rd, Kiuwa was again visited, and again 

 worked very thoroughly without success in finding 

 breeding grounds for the Glossina. I found three pupae, 

 which were more than any one else found. 



On this visit was noted another butterfly which had not 

 been seen since 1910 at Jinja, a very beautiful milky 

 blue Lycaenid which was quite abundant. ^ Next day, 

 owing to supplies having run very low, we returned 

 westwards to a camp on the north shore of the large, 

 flat, forested island of Damba. The camp was pitched in 

 one of the few open spaces, and was memorable for the 

 myriads of mosquitoes. 



En route we examined the Isle of Dyavodemu, lying 

 in a bay near the mainland, and I visited it again on the 

 6th. It is flat and without forest ; at one time it had been 

 much cultivated, but the shambas were quite overgrown. 



^ See p. 109. - Castalius isis. 



