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" Aug. 9, 1917 Itigi. 



1 I've got the cameelious hump to-night, so please be 

 patient and bear with me ! The deadly monotony of this 

 place palls : I have only about 100 patients in hospital now, 

 and very few come to out-patients, so that, after my round 

 before breakfast and about 2 hours more after it, there is no 

 other medical work until the evening round — except some days 

 when I get some men to vaccinate, and then I do them at 

 the rate of 150 per hour, so they don't last long ! Very 

 different from the rather too strenuous times of a few months 

 ago when, except for very hurried breakfast and lunch-tea, 

 I was rushed from 7 a.m. to 7 or later p.m. ! If only this 

 were Kakindu, and I could feel I was doing good insect 

 work ! Now in the very dry time there is even less in the 

 way of Lepidoptera than ever — a few Pierines and occasion- 

 ally a Lycaenid or Skipper — so that one hardly feels it is 

 worth going out. However, I do go out in the afternoons 

 (or else I would fall asleep !), and to-day and yesterday got 

 three specimens of a nice Lycaenid [Rapala eaendea, H. H. 

 Druce, <J], on a flowering shrub, which was new to me and 

 cheered me up ! 



" About a fortnight ago I had a very welcome change, as 

 I was sent away to a place called Lulanguru, about 17 miles 

 W. of Tabora, where one got back to the country of granite 

 kopjes and away from this infernal flat uninteresting bush. 

 There I found one or two species new to me — some fine 

 purple-tipped Pierines [Teracolus regina, Trim., 3 $; also 

 T. ducissa, Dogn., 3 $], a Satyrine [Henotcsin simonsi, Butl.J, 

 a beautiful Lycaenid [probably the $ Deudorix dinochares, 

 H. Gr.-Sm., see p. cxxxiij, and, best of all, though not new, 

 I got four more Crenidomimas, which I haven't seen at [tigi. 

 So far as I could see they were the same as the ones I sent 

 you before. They came from the same kind of country, 

 and were also model-less ! [see p. cxiii]. It was also rather 

 nice to get away from the eternal (and infernal !) noisy railway 

 engines of this place. There is always otic blowing off or 

 making a nuisance of itself in some way ! Fancy being 



