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the ground. It is noteworthy how misippus differs. It is 

 excessively wary, goes off like a shot if struck at, never 

 settles on the ground, but often on the underside of a spray 

 quite high up, when it waves its wings, a habit to which 

 poggei is very little addicted. I have watched with some 

 interest to see whether o misippus would be deceived by 

 poggei — but have seen nothing that would lead one to suppose 

 he was ; but I have seen at Kakindu, most unmistakably, 

 a <3 P. dardanus deceived by Amauris niavius, L., which he 

 mistook for his own mimetic $, suddenly arresting himself 

 in headlong flight to dally a while with the attractive-looking 

 stranger before finding out his mistake ! " 



Prof. Poulton said that Fellows could well imagine how 

 interested Roland Trimen, their ex-President and dear friend 

 of so many of them, would have been at this discovery. He 

 had often spoken with enthusiasm of the wonderful mimetic 

 resemblance of the type form of poggei, now completed by 

 Capt. Carpenter, to whom Prof. Poulton was sure they would 

 wish to offer their congratulations. 



Four examples of the new form were exhibited to the 

 meeting, together with eighteen of the type, including a male 

 captured in the same locality on July 27, 1917, and sent in a 

 previous consignment. This latter specimen, although evi- 

 dently fresh, had been seriously injured, probably by a bird 

 or lizard, nearly the whole of the left hind-wing having been 

 torn away. 



[Concerning this specimen Capt. Carpenter wrote Jan. 25, 

 1918 : " I hope you will publish the fact that I was com- 

 pletely deceived by the first P. poggei I caught. I expect I 

 thought it was misippus, and not having my attention par- 

 ticularly directed to it put it away without studying it ! It 

 is, however, just possible that I noticed its damaged hind- 

 wing, and thought I would send a specimen of damaged 

 chrysippus, and did not study it carefully. AYhatever the 

 explanation 1 am delighted to think Pve been had again! 

 (For the first /'. dardanus form planemoides I sent home from 

 Jinja [captured Aug. 1-15, L910] and said nothing about it- 

 did not even remember catching it until you pointed it out 

 to me in 1913 when I got home.)"] 



