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" Mar. 12, 1917. Itigi (34° 30' E., 5° 45' S.), 

 4278 ft., on the Central Railway, about 150 

 miles E. of Tabora. 



' v On Jan. \7th I got a fine large Pierine [Teracolus ducissa, 

 Dogn., $] new to me, the Belenoid Hesperid mentioned 

 before, a fine rosy Acraea [A. acrita ambigua, Trim., ^j, only 

 once, I think, caught hitherto, and some other Hesperids 

 new to me." One of these, Oxypalpus harona, Westw.. is 

 mentioned in the extract quoted in Proc. Ent. Soc, l'.»17. 

 ]). xli, together with the " Belenoid Hesperid," Leucochitonea 

 hindei, H. H. Druce. The following interesting note on this 

 latter species accompanied the specimens : — 



" Jan. 18, 1917. Black and white Hesperid.— The first I 

 saw, on road through ' Xerophilous forest,' sitting on patch of 

 wet mud with wings outspread. I thought it was a Belenois 

 new to me, until I got within striking distance and saw its 

 short antennae out in front of it. (N.B. — I at first thought 

 it rather a curious attitude for a Pierine ! !) Subsequentlv 

 caught others, most with wings closed in Pierine attitude. 

 One was closely associated with the two Belenois \B. gidica, 

 Godt.. $, and B. severina, Ci\, c?] sent with it. I watched 

 them several times. The Hesperid would settle and the 

 Pierines come and settle as close as possible to it : some 

 Catopsilia also — a pale green species like a $ Brimstone 

 [evidently C. florella, F., <J]. I failed to catch all three at 

 one stroke of the net, but caught Hesperid and one, and the 

 other (the identical one which had been drinking with the 

 Hesperid) a few minutes later. When the net is put down 

 over them the Hesperid does not at once fly up with the 

 Pierines, but remains calmly sitting. Curiously enough, the 

 first one 1 saw was the only one that had wings outspread. 

 Its flight is not so dashing and irregular as most Hesperids : 

 indeed one might say (but 1 wonH, for fear it's only imagina- 

 tion !) that its typical Hesperid flight lias become Pierine ! 

 But I don't think the flight is sufficiently Pierine to cause 

 the butterfly to be mistaken for a Pierine on the wing: there 

 is still a certain Hesperid touch about it." 



The resemblance of the allied white, black-marked Hesperid. 

 Abantis levubu, Wallgr., to the commonest Pierines at Taveta, 



