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week in February, but the last three weeks have been dry 

 and sunny and rather windy. 



" I am sending you the little Alaena which occurs here. 

 '< is not uncommon, but very local, and I have only found 

 it in the forest on the hills behind the house, which is com- 

 pletely deciduous in the dry season. I make a guess that 

 it is A. reticulata, Bull. [It is A. Johanna, E. M. Sharpe.] 

 I am also sending a specimen of the Belenois, which cannot, 

 1 think, be separated from B. picta, Neave. [Dr. Dixey 

 agrees with this opinion.] It is extremely variable here, and 

 some specimens are much more like Neave's figure, and 

 others much less like it. 



"I took about eight males of the form of Acraea acrita 

 [ sent v " u '" my last letter [acrita ambigua, Trim.; Proc. 

 Ent. Soc, L918, p. lix, n.], and this week I have two females. 



" Mar. 7, 1918. 

 I have nof yet seen Dr. Dixey's paper in which he described 

 Teracolus rogersi, so I cannot be certain, but I believe I have 

 specimens from these parts. It does not occur on the low 

 -round, hut well up on the hills, and is by no means common. 

 [Dr. Dixey lias found three $ examples of rogersi in Capl 

 Carpenter's collection from St, Michael's; see p. cli] I am 

 quite convinced that my specimens do not belong to any of 



tll, ' , " mm >range-tipped species of Teracolus. Last Saturday 



1 go1 another orange-tipped Teracolus, which puzzles me. 

 On the upperside it looks like an extreme dry $ of T. phlegyas, 

 Butl., hut the underside does not agree at all with the dry 

 forms of this species I to.de last year. I captured a similar 

 specimen on my way to Mamboya in February last year, but 

 as it was much shattered, and I took it for a Q T. phlegyas, 

 1 did not keep it. 



"Though we have had a month's fine weather now all 

 Teracolus and Precis are still 0, and we expect more ram 

 any day. There have been some thunderstorms about lately, 

 but we have not had any here. 



" ■ enclose a small Lycaenid which I think must be Aloeides 

 talcosama, Wallgrn. It is common here locally in the rains, 

 and vanes a -real deal.'" A long series of the same form, 



