( cxii ) 



Acacias in flower, and bottled lots of minute Hymenoptera 

 for the Bureau. Many are very curious-looking Chalcids, and 



one a veritable giant about an inch long : 1 had never met 

 with one more than half that size before. 1 wonder if it 

 will turn out new. |Dr. Marshall has not been able to deter 

 mine the insect, but thinks that it is a Larradomorpha, of 

 which Capt. Carpenter had previously sent another fine 

 species.] 



" Here at Lulanguru I bag great numbers of things at 

 light. Has this curious fact ever been recorded, that on 

 different nights different species predominate ( About a week 

 ago one kind of Melolonthid. later another, last night a 

 third, with two small Chrysomelids, and to-night, as I write, 

 numbers of small actively flying Carabidae of several species, 

 none of which have come on any previous night. I suppose 

 the explanation is that large numbers of one species come 

 out at approximately the same time from the pupa. 



" Nov. 14, 1917. Lulanguru. 



" The Itigi butterflies are mostly a long series of pairs of 

 Picrin.es in cop. : — P. simana, Belenois, and Teracolus, a propos 

 of what 1 wrote before (Proc. Ent. Soc., 1917, p. lii) that 

 Darwin had said Pierine ? $ carry o 6*- In all these cases 

 S carried $, save in one P. simana, which was probably a 

 mistaken observation. The only other things of interest from 

 Itigi were a number of very fine Eastern zetes, and sundry 

 minute Hymenoptera and beetles for the Bureau. 



" Ckaraxes abound on the kopje and some look interesting. 



" Hot and exhausting weather. 



" Nov. 27, 1917. Lulanguru." 



Extracts from this and other letteis on Pseudacraea poggei, 

 Dew., and its form carpenteri are published in Proc. Ent. Soc, 

 1918, pp. v-viii. 



Writing of Charaxes : " I fancy I can spot mimics in one 

 case at least. This kopje here is the best locality I have 

 struck for them, except perhaps Kakindu. but then that was 

 a large forest, whereas this kopje top is only a few hundred 

 yards square. 



