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females of Papilio Merope, one the Cenea type, the other the 

 3'ellow one ; Charaxes Ethalion, females also ; C. Cithceron, both 

 sexes ; and several Crenis Natalensis. These are all more 

 attentive to the decaying guavas, perhaps on account of their 

 stronger flavour, than to any other of the fallen fruits. In the 

 sun also, round a loquat in bloom, we take, for the first time, 

 although we have seen them before, the two gorgeous day-moths, 

 Glaucopis Formosa, with its sheen of gold and silver and bands 

 of purple and red, and G. Madagascariensis, with its rich black 

 and crimson bands and marks. As we leave the corner of this 

 old garden, and enter the thicket skirting the big bush which we 

 are going to cross, we find several specimens of the larvie of the 

 clear-wing humming-bird moth, Hemaris Hylas, which are very 

 variable ; and on the food -plant, which has large green shiny 

 leaves and clusters of red bell-shaped flowers, we watch a female 

 depositing her eggs, singly, on the surface of the leaf, selecting 

 always quite fresh opened young leaves on a central axil of the 

 plant. 



Eurytela Hiarhas, G. Cleodora, Acrcea Natalica, Junonia Clelia, 

 Philognoma Varanes, several Pierida, a damaged P. Merope, A. 

 Phalanta, are all added here, as well as a few skippers, Pamphila 

 Mohopaani, P. mackenii, Nisoniades Djcdcela, Pyrgus vindex. 



The veteran, before entering the bush, quite bears me out in 

 my penchant for this little bit of hunting ground, upon which, 

 not an acre in extent, I have taken over one hundred varieties of 

 butterflies in one season. Its aspect, compactness, and availability 

 was borne in mind whenever he visited me afterwards ; when mis- 

 sing I always sent for him to " my corner." 



For the next half-mile our path is thence a track which I have 

 cut with a bush-knife, rather tortuous, and very narrow, partly to 

 get to the boles of the large iron-wood, mahogany, flat-crown, 

 and fig trees, for sugaring purposes at night, and partly to 

 work a way to the hill-top on the other side of the valley, which 

 is the favourite haunt of P. Menestheus {Gphidocephalus ?) 



Pushing along, now and then barred by a fallen trunk or a 

 thorny lliana, we reach an open glade of rank grass, and liliaceous 

 plants and trees with mossy boughs, on which a few parasitic 

 orchids are just over bloom ; on the edge of this, being on the alert, 

 the Satyrid, Gnophodes Parmeno, is marked down, and, after a very 

 cautious approach and quick plunge, captured ere he can rise 



