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ban " : note by F. Muir on a specimen of S. anacardii 

 (= parhassus, Dvarj) in the Oxford Museum. Prof. 

 Poulton, to whom I am indebted for this record, says, 

 that a huge piece, probably over one-third, is taken 

 symmetrically out of both hind-wings. — (c) " I have 

 only once seen a bird attempt the capture of a butter- 

 fly, and that was a shrike, which is common here, trying 

 to catch a newly emerged Charaxcs " : Rev. K. St. 

 Aubyn Rogers, in a letter to Prof. Poulton dated 

 Taveta, B. E. Africa, July 5, 1905.— (rf) "On May 18, 

 1908 [at Durban, Natal], I followed up a ^ Charaxcs 

 neantlus and obtained eighteen ova, and should have 

 got more, but the fly was then captured by a bird." 

 G. F. Leigh (in a letter to Prof. Poulton, dated 12, ix, 

 1908). — ((,') Mr. F. Muir " expressed surprise that any 

 doubts should have been raised. He had frequently 

 observed such attacks at Delagoa Bay and other 

 places on the East Coast of Africa, and had seen 

 birds waiting in trees or bushes and darting out at 

 butterflies as they approached " : Prof. E. B. Poulton, 

 " Essays on Evolution," p. 282, note. 



The following is a summary of the butterflies attacked : — ■ 



Ethiopian Butterflies, 

 acraeinae. 



Acraea sp. — Motacilla capensis (1, a) ; Merops persicus 



A. rahbaiae, Ward. — Melittophagus bullockoides (24). 

 A. nohara-halali, Mshl. — Apalis thoracica (4). 



Nymphalinae. 



Atella phalantJia, Drury. — Terpsiphone persiDicillata 



(10, d) : Melittophagus meridionalis (23, c). 

 Pyrameis cardiii, L. — Nectarinia sp. (3).- 

 Precis sp. — Melittoph. meridionalis (23, h). 

 P. hierta-cehrene, Trim. — Halcyon chelicuti (29, h). 

 Salatnis parhassus, Drury. — Bird (32, Ij). 

 Hypolimnas duMv-S-drucei, Butl. — Dicrurus sp. (12). 

 Charaxcs sp. — Bird (32, c). 

 C. neanthcs, Hew. — Bird (32 d). 



Lycaeninae. 



Tarucus tclicanns, Lang. — Pratincola torquata (5) ; Pa- 



chypora molitor (8, cc, h). 

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