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a male, flitting round a Mango tree in flower, and until I had 

 it in the net, was convinced that I had been watching a 

 hippocoon* But my experience of these eastern forms is of 

 course so limited. 



" 18;/i August. — The seven imagos are now out, but only 

 two are females and both hippocoon, one badly malformed. 

 However, I have put it in the box ready for postage when 

 an opportunity offers. The other female is a very fine 

 specimen. 



" So far I have not succeeded in obtaining any more eggs, 

 though I have seen several more hippocoon females, and two 

 female forms, a cenea, Stoll, and a trophonius, Westw., feeding 

 on flowers high up on a bank and quite out of my reach. 

 That is the first time I have seen trojihonius alive." 



Further observations on African Hesperidae of the 



GENUS SaRANGESA RESTING IN HOLES IN THE GROUND. — Prof. 



PouLTON said that he had just received from Captain R. S. 

 Wilson the following observations on the habits of *S'. eliminata, 

 Holl., and S. plisto)i,icus, Plotz, or helms, Mab., in the Nuba 

 Mountains Province of the Sudan. Among the specimens 

 sent to Oxford by Capt. Wilson were 2 eliminata, taken 

 Apr. 13, 1917, at Billing, one of them bearing the note re- 

 ferred to below, and 14 taken the next day in the same locality ; 

 also 1 taken June 14, 1917, at Talodi. This latter, a worn 

 specimen, bore the label " flowering plants," probably indi- 

 cating that the Hesperid was not altogether restricted to holes 

 and deep shade. 



Sept. 14, 1917. Talodi. 



" Re Saran.gesa eliminata, I was most interested to receive 

 the proof [Proc. Ent. Soc, 1916, pp. cxxix-cxxxii] you sent. 

 My note means ' in shade : also in hole in ground.' My 

 experience of this skipper, as regards its fondness for holes, 

 is exactly the same as that recorded in the proof. I used 

 when at Dilling this year generally to go out collecting for 



* See also Trans. Ent. Soc, 1908, p. 497, and description of Plate 

 XXVI, fig. 3, for the Pv,ev. K. St. Aubyn Rogers' observations on the 

 living H. usambara. Looking at a specimen in the cabinet it would 

 be supposed that the bright orange-brown of both surfaces, especially 

 the under, is likely to prevent a close mimetic likeness, yet both Mr. 

 Rogers and Mr. Lamborn observed that the resemblance is strong. 



