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Acrmt is not sulticioutly close to deceive 

 a baboon. 

 Feb. 25. Gave baboon a B. ilitliyia, which was 

 eaten without hesitation, then an Acrxa 

 halali, which she rubbed in her hands 

 as though preparatory to eating, but 

 eventually threw down without even 

 smelling it ; she then ate another B. 

 ilifhyia. 

 March 20. Gave baboons three specimens of a 

 brightly-coloured black-and-yellow spider 

 {Gastcracantha ornata). They viewed 

 them with some distrust at first, but 

 eventually ate them with appreciation. 



„ 22. Baboons ate one Precis archcsia and two 

 male Hypolimnas misippus, but rejected 

 a Mylothris agathina. They further ate 

 two i>. iliihyia, three Atel/a iiludantlia, 

 and one Precis sesamus 0. I then offered 

 an Acri'ea natalica, which was seized, 

 smelt, and thrown away ; another P. 

 sesamus was offered immediately after- 

 wards and neglected. 



„ 26. Gave baboon a Mylotliris agathina; she 

 regarded it with some suspicion, but 

 eventually ate it very slowly and evi- 

 dently did not care about it. I then 

 gave her another specimen ; she pulled 

 the abdomen off, smelt at the exuding 

 juices, and after tasting them gingerly 

 with her tongue, threw the insect away. 

 After this two Bclenois scverina were 

 eaten with relish. I then gave her a 

 Ncptis agatha, and she seemed to hesitate 

 about taking it, and after tasting a portion 

 of the abdomen neglected it. Of a second 

 specimen she ate rather more before 

 throwing it down ; the remains I offered 

 to the other baboon; he tasted it and 

 seemed in doubt for some time as to 

 whether it was fit to eat or not, but 

 finally rejected it. 

 April 9. Gave baboon a female Hypolimnas misippus, 

 var. inaria, of which I had cut off' the 



