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In the fresh condition this specimen was probably an even 

 better mimic than the type. 



Bred < '. etheocles with male-like females from S. Nigeria. — 

 Eight remarkable females have been bred by Capt. W. A. 

 Lamborn and Mr. C. 0. Farquharson, who first found the 

 larvae on Adenanthera pavonina (Mim.0s0id.3a) at the Agri- 

 cultural Department, Moor Plantation, near Ibadan, S. Nigeria. 

 The period of pupation is shown in the following table : — ■ 



In addition to these specimens sent to me by Capt. Lamborn, 

 I have received 3 males and 5 females, bred, except 3 without 

 records, July 31-Aug. 6, 1915, by Mr. C. 0. Farquharson. 



Considering the rarity of maledike females in etheocles it 

 is astonishing that all these should be male-like. Indeed 

 Dr. Jordan, after seeing them, suggested the possibility that 

 they had been affected by the artificial conditions. On the 

 other hand, the 11)13 females were only in confinement as 

 larvae for a few days, while the size of nearly all the specimens 

 proves that the conditions were quite healthy. On the whole 

 I think it probable that the dominant females of this S. Nigerian 

 locality are male-like and co-mimics, with the males of Ch. 

 numenes, Hew., of the males of Ch. tiridates, Cr. I have not 

 as yet received any captured females from the locality. 



No one of these bred females is very like the form alladinis, 

 But!., or virilis, Rothsch., although nearer to the latter. 

 But among themselves they differ so widely in detail that I 



