( =v .) 
so you see it was a stroke of extraordinary good fortune, and 
the gods of butterfly hunters are particularly in favour at 
present ! I provided it (or her) with nice green young sprays 
of lime (which I gather Lamborn uses as food-plant), and 
following his tip, put in a box of earth saturated with sugar 
solution. Now tHEN—To-day I visited the box in the 
evening and found she had already laid six ova! So you may 
imagine how pleased I was—almost as excited as when I saw 
the first egg of Pseudacraea obscura. She will probably lay 
more, I expect. I know you will be awfully pleased, for 
(I believe) not only has P. dardanus never been bred from in 
Uganda, but no one has ever bred from the form planemoides. 
I feel I could not have had a nicer end up to my sojourn 
among the Sesse caterpillars, for by the time the imagines 
appear I shall almost have done here. 
“« Tuesday, Dec. 3. 
““T visited the breeding-box this evening; there are now 
about 20 ova. Madam Planemoides seemed in the best of 
health—pulse and temperature normal and tongue clean—so 
there seems every reason to hope her progeny will be even 
more numerous ! 
=o Deca auie 
‘““ The young larvae are thriving well; they all got through 
the first ecdysis without a fatality and are now undergoing 
the second. I am excited about them. I have always longed 
to breed this classical butterfly, but never hoped I should 
do it from a form not hitherto bred from. It is a splendid 
wind up to my breeding series. 
“* Dec. 20. 
‘‘ By the way, now that the larvae have accomplished their 
second moult, I have been much struck by their appearance, and 
this does not seem to have impressed other folk in the same 
way—at least I have seen no reference to it in such literature 
as I possess. What struck me was the likeness to a freshly 
extruded bird-dropping, which, not having been dropped from 
a height, has kept a cylindrical shape; the anterior and posterior 
ends of the larva are chalky white, the middle of a curious 
greenish chocolate (and glistening as a fresh dropping does) ; 
