( j.xxxviii ) 



taken in the rain.; by ('apt. Carpenter at Itigi, between 

 .Mar. 21 and Apr. 6, 1!H7. showed such marked variation 

 that it seemed doubtful whether tdkosama was nol the .same 

 species as Cramer's pierus. Structural investigations were 

 required. 



" Mar. 21, 1918. 



"The rains have been very deficient this year except 

 during January, and the crops will be very poor; in fact, 

 unless rain conies soon there will be famine in some districts. 



Capt. G. D. H. Carpenter's Further Notes on Ex-German 

 East Africa, almost exclusively East op Lake 

 Tanganyika. 

 Owing to the loss of letters from Capt. Carpenter between 

 July 1G and Oct. 5, 11)16, there is some inaccuracy in the 

 account published in Proc. Ent. Soc, 1916, p. cxxviii. On 

 July 16 he was at Namirembe Bay at the S.W. comer of 

 Lake Victoria. In the first half of August he was at 32° 20' E., 

 3° 20' S., in a temporary camp in flat, dry country with 

 thin, deciduous bush, arriving about the 18th at 32° -15' E., 

 3° 45' S., in the neighbourhood of St. Michael's Mission, in 

 country of similar type with granite outcrops. This was the 

 '"place of rocks" (ibid., cxxviii), where he remained until 

 about the middle of October, reaching Muanza, the well- 

 known port on the S. coast of Lake Victoria about Oct. 20. 

 The following extracts, arranged regardless of date in what 

 seemed the most convenient order, give some of 1 he informal ion 

 recorded in the missing letters. 



" Mar. 6, 1917. 



I gather from your saying that you didn't understand 

 the allusion to "the place of rocks' that a long and, if I 

 may say so, an interesting letter* of mine has got lost — very 

 probably it went down in the ' Persia,' which contained a 

 large E. African mail. It described a camp at St. Michael's 

 about half-way between Muanza and Tabora, among piled up 

 granite boulders which sheltered countless Hyrax (the first 



* After reading Proc. Ent. Soc, 191(1. p. cxxviii, ('apt. Carpenter 

 wrote mi .May :.'(>, L917 : '" At least two letters written between July IC 

 and Oct. :*, 1916, never reached you." 



