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clumps, and every here and there tufts of dried grass. 

 The thorny scrub was mostly composed of a low-growing 

 shrub bearing a small whitish flower with a slight nonde- 

 script scent ; this seemed rather attractive to the whites 

 and their allies." The great preponderance of Pierines in 

 this two-days collection at Mangala will be noticed. 



The remaining captures were all made at Gondokoro or 

 in its immediate vicinity. With respect to them Mr. Loat 

 writes as follows : — " The series caught at Gondokoro 

 [Jan. 12, IG] were collected on a strip of land cleared of 

 elephant-grass and weeds, and turned into a kind of garden 

 with sweet potatoes, etc., growing in it, and a few wild 

 flowers about, close to the edge of the river. The L. 

 clirysippus, with hardly an exception, and also the Aowas 

 were obtained on, or close to, the same strip of ground, 

 some of the remainder [Jan. 13, March 8] were taken on 

 ground like that described at Mangala. The weather on 

 January 8, 9, 12, 13, was dry, sunny and warm. The 

 rainy season generally begins [at Gondokoro] about the 

 15th of March, but this year (1902) it commenced about 

 one month earlier; that is to say, we had occasional 

 showers and squalls, with long intervals of fine weather. 

 About the end of March the rains start with a certain 

 amount of regularity, and last off and on till about October." 

 In the neighbourhood of Kaka, 6" further north, the rains 

 are later. As was stated above, at Gharb-el-Aish, on April 

 13 (1901), they were only just beginning. 



lY. Bahr-el-Gebel (Nile) ; Gondokoro ; 4^ 43' N. 

 Lat. Strip of ground by the river. 



1902, January 12. 

 Between 3 and 4 p.m. 

 DANAIX.E. 

 LiMNAS CHRYSIPPUS, Linn. 



L. chrysij^ijjus, Linn., 4 ^ (one with slight white powdering 

 round gland-patch) ; alcijjpoides, Moore, 1 $ ; alcippus, 

 Cram., 2 $ ; Idugii, Butl., 2 ^ ; doripims, Klug, 1 ^. 



ACEiEIN^. 

 ACR^A VINIDIA, He wits. 



31 $, 1 ^. " Very numerous ; takes a long time to die 

 when put in the killing-bottle," — W. L. S. L. 



