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worried with the noise of engines in the heart of Africa ! 

 Well, well. 



" A Veil, that's enough. I feel better now, thank you ! 



" Aug. 21, 1917. Itigi. 

 " Very little to do nowadays here. 1 think there, is eveiy 

 likelihood of this depot being closed, in which case I should 

 be moved somewhere else. I hope it will be somewhere as 

 far away and as different as possible from this dull, flat, 

 dried-up bush country as possible. I am very bored with it. 



" Aug. 22, 1917. Itigi. 



" I keep collecting P. simana on account of its being so 

 rare in collections : you may be able to use them for exchange. 

 I should like some to go to the B.M. Also I keep on collect- 

 ing other, commoner, Pierines (except the ones I know to 

 be universal), as they are now in the dry phase. There is 

 one very fine large Belenois [B. gidica, Godt.] of which I 

 only know the dry form with underside well suffused with 

 grey and brown scales. [The wet form was taken at Itigi 

 on Mar. 21, and 2 intermediates on Aug. 25.] It is more 

 agile and difficult to catch than any Pierine I know, which 

 is saying a good deal ! I first saw it at St. Michael's in 

 September of last year, and have never seen it since (i. e. 

 never during the wet season) until I got a fine pair in cop. 

 on Aug. 18th, and since then have seen several others. I 

 wonder if it only appears in dry weather ? 



" On June 27 three of a handsome Lycaenid new to me 

 [Stugeta bowheri, Trim., or very near this species], and on 

 June 28 and again on 21) a very lovely orange-pink Acraea 

 also new to me [A. acrihi acrita, Hew., with reduced black 

 at the apex of fore-wing]. 



"On July 5 a very dead-leaf tailed brown Nymphaline 

 new to me. It flitted from bush to bush, taking especial 

 care to settle on or near clusters of wrinkled dead leaves. 

 [A $ of Charaxes neanthes, Hew.. 1854, the dry-season form 

 of zoolina, Westw., 1850. This form was also taken at 

 Lulanguru on July 24, Nov. I and 13, one of the specimens 

 being noted as "scarce." The wet form zoolina was cap- 



