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" Feb. 26, 1917. Itigi. 

 " Things drag on here and we are all very sick of the 

 business. But there seems no chance of rounding up the 

 Huns that remain until the rains are well over and the 

 marshes have dried up a bit. So for several more months 

 I suppose I shall continue to vaccinate porters, and treat 

 those that are sick, etc. etc So do we win the war ! 



" Mar. <i, 1917. Itigi. 



I w r as much interested in your phrase that ' the African 

 vegetation anticipates the wet season.' Though I had noticed 

 the facts the full meaning had not come to me, and the word 

 ' anticipates ' brings it home. 



" Mar. 24, 1917. Itigi." 



This letter contained the account of the 272 Lycid beetles 

 caught on one plant, Mar. 23 (Proc. Ent. Sue, 1917, p. lvii), 

 also the following note : " I caught my first A. zetes acara 

 for many months, here, to-day. It was a very E. specimen 

 as one would expect." An undated letter, written a little 

 later, refers to the same species as follows : " By the way, 

 I have at last caught a couple of zetes acara here, and both 

 were, as would be expected, the most Eastern I have seen. 

 But it is extraordinarily scarce." Of the powerful combina- 

 tion of large red-and-black Eastern Acraeas Capt. Carpenter 

 caught in 1917, zetes acara, Hew., pseudolycia astrigera, Butl. 

 and anemosa, Hew. They are very much alike, especially 

 the first two, and Capt. Carpenter, who was unfamiliar with 

 the species, speaks of them all as zetes acara. A. natalica, 

 Boisd., the commonest of the combination in British Eas1 

 Africa (see the Rev. K. St. Auliyn Rogers in Trans. Ent. 

 Soc, 1908, p. 525), and egina areca, Mab., are not repre- 

 sented in this ex-German E. African collection, (apt. Car- 

 penter had taken acara and astrigera more recently than he 

 supposed, the first on Feb. 7. as well as Mar. 2S. the second 

 on .Ian. 9 and 10 (2), and Mar. 1 1. 



"There have been lots of a Tabanid here with proboscis 

 aboul half-way between Pangonia and Tabanus, and I have 



