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its wings .slowly ii|> and down. In fact it almost behaves 

 like a true aposematic species. Chrysippus itself is quite as 

 easily alarmed, and indeed I think more so! 1 certainly 

 agree with a statement 1 remember to have seen some 

 where that poggei is the best of all mimics of chrysippus. If 

 is easier to catch than any other Pseudacraea I have caught 

 hobleyi, Neave, lucretia, Cr., kuenoun hypoxantha, Jord., or 

 semire, ( lr." 



Nov. 5.—" There is a Rhodesian here and he. says the style 

 of country is exactly like parts of X. Rhodesia granite 

 kopjes rising out of Hat plain, with no actual forest, but 

 small trees fairly close together. The butterfly haunts two 

 foci of circumscribed area on the very top of the kopje. They 

 are nearly all beautifully fresh specimens, whose colouring 

 has a very rich appearance, and in some lights has a more 

 reddish tint than either chrysippus or misippus. 



I am more excited over this find than 1 have been 

 over any butterfly matter since I reared Pseudacraea terra, 

 Neave, or my planemoides, Trim., family of P. dardanus, 

 Brown. 1 wish it did not take so long to hear from 

 you ! " 



Nov. 27.— ' Poggei goes merrily on I continue to catch 

 them, hut only the best specimens and get the variety quite 

 often. It seems remarkably fixed and definite— I have only 

 once taken one that shows any intermediary stage as you 

 may see in the. model where the white bar is not quite brown, 

 and there is a little more black at the apex than there 

 should be." 



Dec. 7. "P. }><>!/</< i is one of the commonest butterflies 

 on the kopje ! It is by far the best mimic of chrysippus. 

 Not only in close similarity of pattern but in flight is this so 

 and it is remarkably un-shy ! I Lave had one settle on my 

 helmet and they frequently come so close to investigate the, 

 net that they almost fly into it, and have even settled on it ! 

 The flighl is Mower and more flapping than that of any other 

 Pseudacraea, and has very little of the soaring quality shown 

 by lucretia, boisduvalii, Doubl., or the forms of eurytus, L. 

 It will always return to the same spot, flying backwards and 

 forwards, and sometimes settling quite near to, or even on, 



