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will not be forthcoming. I put it alive under my helmet 

 while considering the feasibility of trying to breed from it, 

 and in the meantime it escaped. The second female — I 

 forget the name of the form, but do not think it is quite 

 frophonius — has light sulphur subapical markings and light 

 brick-red on the hind [or inner] margin of fore-wing and centre 

 of hind-wing, with black margin [the new form lamhomi 

 described in Trans. Ent. Soc, 1917, p. 335]. 



" I trust that when this letter reaches you the news will 

 have got through to you that the campaign is over. 



" Some of the $ tsetses here have a puncture or cicatrix in 

 the centre of the abdomen, the causation of which I am 

 hoping to be able to investigate. It will be almost out of the 

 question when the war here is over, the country being very 

 thinly populated indeed, and so inhospitable in the regions 

 where I have been. 



" I am longing to be able to have a good butterfly talk with 

 you and to see the recent additions — all by other people this 

 time — in your department. I have only some ten months to 

 do to the end of my tour. 7 ' 



" The Front, German East Africa, 

 [Ufiomi was the tax! halt before reaching the Front]. 



" 15. 0. 16. 



" I reached some days ago the scene of actual warfare, and 

 am now held up indefinitely behind the trenches until such 

 time as a move takes place. Apart from the excitement 

 produced by the German shelling : — they put fifty-three shells 

 about two miles behind my tent yesterday morning — life is 

 very dull, for the district is so arid that insect life seems 

 almost non-existent, and I have to try and console myself by 

 perusing Sharp's ' Insects ' and the last volume of Gibbon. 



" Here no one seems to know at all what developments are 

 likely to take place, though further back the people seem 

 much better informed. 



" At my last halt I found a well-watered fertile valley in 

 which were a fair number of Lepicloptera, some of which I was 

 able to collect. A species of Amauris [A. alhimaculata, Butl.] 

 was quite common — I must have taken at least thirty — and 

 with it a Eur alia [dubius mima, Trim.] — a most perfect mimic 



