( lis ) 



some very light showers a week or two before. In December 

 we had occasional thunderstorms only amounting to about 

 3h ins., but this last week we have had lots of rain. 



" The first wet Precis did not appear till the end of Decem- 

 ber — P. anfilope, Feisth., Dec. 27, and P. sesamus, Trim., 

 Dec. 29, are my first records. Previously there was nothing 

 but much-worn dry forms, so the wet forms have a very 

 short season here. You will see that the seasons here are 

 very similar to those in S. Africa — 6 months wet and 6 months 

 dry, but both begin later, so that the hottest months of the 

 year are at the end of the dry season and beginning of the 

 wet season. It is very curious that Precis archesia, Cram., 

 produces the limnoria, Klug, form under these conditions. 

 A good many Lycaenids and Hesperids seem to be confined 

 to the wet season. 



" I was up at Kiboriani for two days last week, but the 

 weather was not at all satisfactory, so I did not get much. 

 Acraea anacreon bomba, Gr.-Sm., was plentiful and A. acrita 

 manca, Thur., just coming out. I have quite 30 of A. anacreon, 

 Trim., of both seasonal forms showing a considerable amount 

 of variation. During the last three days down here I have 

 taken 2 specimens of a form of A. acrita, Hew., or A. chaeri- 

 bula, Oberth. (specimen sent *), with a heavy black tip and 

 no subapical spots, so this form is found on the same ground 

 as A. acrita manca, of which I have a long series taken at 

 all seasons. 



"' On my way down I got a real prize, my first specimen of 

 a Mimacraea. It seems to be intermediate between M. 

 marshdlli, Trim., and M. dohertyi, Roths., so far as I can 

 judge. I am now quite sure I missed another on the same 

 spot about 2 months ago. 



" I have a long series of Belenois picta, Neave, but only 



one specimen is like Neave's figure of his dry form. I have 



a good number taken in the dry season, but all except one 



have a quite different underside. Moreover, both seasonal 



forms show a good deal of variation in the amount of black 



* Determined l>y Dr. If. Eltringham as A. acrita ambigua, Trim., 6 . 

 Dr. Eltringham considers it \cr\ interesting that this form, originally 

 described from N. Rhodesia, should have occurred in the area of A. 

 acrita manca. 



