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1905. 

 January 14 and 15. Not in Durban. 



„ 16 Captured 1 mdilbergi and 1 mima, and saw another of 

 the latter, all in the afternoon. 



„ 17 Captured 3 vxthlhergi in morning and 2 in the afternoon, 

 and 1 mima going to rest as late as 5.30. 



,, 18 Not out in morning, captured 1 mima in afternoon. 



„ 19 Morning : captured 10 uvdilhergi and saw 3 others, 1 

 badly crijipled. Afternoon : saw 2 more u-ahlbenji, 

 no mima, but had 2 perfect specimens of latter given 

 me, captured about 3 p.m. in another part of Stella 

 Bush. They had only just emerged, and tlie wings 

 were hardly dry. 



,, 20 Captured 3 u-ahlhenji and saw 1 mima in morning. 



„ 21 and 22. Not in Durban. 



,, 23 Captured 2 wahlhergi in morning and 2 in afternoon ; 

 saw 4 others, including a pair in coitn ; captured 1 

 mima just out and saw another in afternoon. 



,, 24 Cajjtured 5 ivahlhergl and saw 4 otliers in morning, 

 raining all afternoon. 



„ 25 Captured 2 ivahlhergi and saw^ 1 other in morning ; saw 



1 mima. in afternoon. A dull damp day. 



„ 26 Captured 1 wahlhergi * and saw another in morning ; 



captured 1 freshly emerged inima in afternoon. 



Raining nearly all day. 

 ,, 27 Afternoon : captured 3 vahlbergi and saw 1 other ; saw 



2 mima in coifu. Wet, dull morning. 



At this point the observations ceased, as I was unable to 

 continue my regular visits to the locality in which the above 

 recorded notes were made. 



To sum up: — Between December IG, 1904, and January 

 27, 1905, I captured, saw, or heard of being captured just 121 

 E. wahlhergi, and between January 9 and 27, 1905, I captured, 

 saw, or heard of being captured just 20 mima. 



Tliese numbers, especially of viima, are greatly in excess of 

 anything that I have before observed in this locality. The 

 mima captured in the season 1904-5 indeed exceed the total 

 that I have been able to obtain in the five previous seasons 

 together, that is duinng the whole of my experience of this 

 locality. This remarkable abundance I attribute to the fact 



* A crippled ? kept alive for ova without success. 



