,564 Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall's 



for England Mr. Hutchinson kindly undertook to rear the 

 larvsG for me and communicate the result. I have just 

 heard from him that two specimens emerged on the 31st 

 of March, and they are undoubtedly Tcrias hrigitta, 

 which Mr. Barker has already pointed out as being the 

 probable dry season form of T. zoc. Mr. Hutchinson 

 states that the two specimens are lighter on the under- 

 side than typical T. hrigitta, and this is what I should 

 have expected as they are I'epresentatives of the early 

 dry season (winter) brood. Their offspring, which would 

 emerge about midwinter, that is in June, will probably 

 show the strongly marked reddish underside of true 

 hrigitta. 



(1.) Since writing this 1 have had an opportunity of 

 examining the British Museum series upon which Mr. 

 Butler based his theory. There are five specimens 

 labelled as '^ Acra^^a homha, Smith. {^= indiiva, Trim.)," 

 four of these are undoubtedly ^1. anacreon, Trim., and 

 are without any broad apical black patch. The fifth 

 specimen, which has a very heavy black patch and the 

 disc of both wings strongly suffused with blackish, is 

 probably induna though differing somewhat from my 

 Mashunaland specimens, and has absolutely no connection 

 with tlie four examples associated with it. These latter 

 are somewhat lightly marked specimens of anacreon and 

 probably represent the dry season form in Nyasaland — 

 not the wet, as stated by Mr. Butler. Judging by the 

 figure of Mr. Crose Smith's homha it is not represented 

 in the series at all. 



(2.) There are only two specimens of A. 'ppi'ip^^'^nes in 

 the British Museum, and 1 certainly doubt their being 

 the wet season form of gnillemei. The black edging of 

 primaries is certainly slightly better developed in them, but 

 the hind marginal Ijorder of secondaries is not nearly so 

 heavily marked as in gnillemei, and this does not in any 

 way accord with my experience of seasonal changes in 

 this genus. 



(3.) The form alluded to here is the Precis odaira, var. 

 iiatalen.sis of Staudinger. I agree with Mr. Butler in 

 considering it to be specifically distinct from the typical 

 octaira, Cram., from the West Coast, but I see no necessity 

 for renaming it. This species should therefore stand as 

 Precis natalensis, Staud. {= P. octaira, Trim, (part) = 

 Jun. calescens, Butl.), 



