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plenty more are to be found, he is set free, and he retires with 

 somewhat of a dubious flutter. On one side of us now as we 

 advance up the hill is the " break-wind," and on the other an open 

 clearing, formerl}^ alas, coffee, but now a grand crop of weeds, 

 rank to a degree, and forming a tangle of creepers and undergrowth 

 difficult to get through. We follow, however, a beaten " Kaffir 

 path" between them, which enables us to move along easily, and 

 from which we diverge right or left as the temptation presents 

 itself. Our additions here are several Pieridcs : — P. Saba, 

 P. Severina, &c., visiting the flowering weeds; Acraa serena on 

 the open patches of scrub; A. Protea in the edge of bush; 

 Atella phalaoita travelling; Charaxes Brutus, male, which costs us 

 a halt, and the use of a lengthening joint for the net to get near 

 him, as he sticks close to the exuding gum on a " flat crown," 

 accompanied by a few large flies, a Cetonia or two, Crenis 

 Bolsduvalii which also falls a victim to our raid, a couple of 

 Mantidce waiting for game, and a hornet, probably collecting 

 material for his nest. Nymphalis Zoolina, also, is seen and not 

 captured, as the plunge after him results in the disappearance of 

 our veteran into a tangle of creepers covering a pit of rotten wood, 

 ant-heap, and dust. Recovering, we see also several Lyccenidee ; 

 and the veteran marks a miss on Caprona Canopus. Nisoniades 

 Opliion, however, startled by his energy at the miss, falls an 

 incautious victim to his net, settling after his swooping flight, 

 with outspread wings, under the leaves of a feathered sjjray of a 

 bush-plant, just within easy reach. This spot yields also two or 

 three more of this insect, male and female, which generally occurs 

 in a family. Our boys have fished out a busy tribe of larvae of 

 A. Cynthia on the head of a Lamium, which is all spun together 

 by them ; as the insect and its transformations have been well 

 worked out by me, after inspection the group is thrown back 

 into the wilderness. A large branch of a tree, a Ficus, bearing 

 some dozen of larvse of Bimcea forda, also, is examined and left ; 

 and the larvse of the small sphinx, Sophura nana, is collected from 

 a patch of Galium, and put in the larvse tins to be reared. 

 Diadema Misippus, male and female, are captured circling over a 

 vacant space with J. Clelia and Anthocaris Evarne, where dry 

 gravel and sandy subsoil relieve the intense tangle of vegetation. 

 Philofinoma Va7'anes, with his sharp flight and Nymphalid dash, 

 is taken as he settles on an outlying orange tree, the indication of 



