( slii ) 



put much heart into such work in these anxious and trying 

 times. 



" Acraea encedon is fairly plentiful and I got one large 

 lycia form, a splendid specimen, which I did not recognise as 

 such on the wing, and there are various species new to me 

 but which are doubtless common enough. 



" It is perhaps early days to express an opinion, but I am 

 by no means sure that my services are going to be of any real 

 value to the military authorities. However, I shall of course 

 see the matter through, hoping to justify my transfer here by 

 the discovery of the breeding-grounds of the local tsetses, 

 Glossina pallidipes and longipennis, pupae of which have been 

 urgently needed for a long time for trypanosome work in the 

 laboratories. 



" Carpenter has just written me his usual cheery form of 

 letter from the S.W. corner of Uganda." 



[Ufiomi, 35° 50' E., 4 H>'S.|. 



"3. 6. 16. 



" Most of my days are spent in steadily trekking along 

 military paths in search of tsetses, and I have now covered 

 so much ground that I am no great way behind the sphere of 

 operations. I have denned several large fly areas, but beyond 

 that have not been able to do a great amount of entomo- 

 logical work. However, I try to add a few insects daily to 

 a collection, and am not forgetting Lepidoptera, Acraeinae in 

 especial, which seemed to me to be probably of most interest. 



" The country as a whole where I have been was arid in 

 the extreme, lack of water being a serious trouble at times, 

 but every now and again there lias been a good river with 

 insects fairly numerous in the vicinity. 



tk I have been much struck by the abundance of dorippus, 

 the type form being almost absent. Inaria also seems to be 

 more numerous than the type, and encedon is almost invariably 

 a brown form [daira] without any sub-apical bar at all. I 

 have twice met dardanus $s. The first settled with outspread 

 wings on a flower, and I said to myself at once, " Wha1 a 

 huge psyttalea,' and until I had it in the net I did not realise 

 it was a Papilio. It had a white pattern on a black back- 

 ground just like the Amauris, but unfortunately the specimen 



