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Pretty busy in mornings now: we have aboul 2000 in 

 camp, and they arrived infected with measles, mumps and 

 chicken-pox. I feel as if I was in charge of a boys' school! 

 Bui I can colled most afternoons. We are having heavy 

 rains now heavier than I remember at this time last year. 



" jVoi\ 30, 1917. Lulanguru. 



" The. only larva of P. simana escaped when it was too 

 late to gel more, as 1 was expecting to be moved ! A pity ! 



" I am continuing to get Crenidomimas here, and have 

 now got 1 or 5 more specimens, all, so far as 1 can see, the 

 same as before. I haven't seen a single model! 1 don't 

 know why the model shouldn't be here. [Capt. Carpenter, 

 who is always interested in the success of a mimetic likene s, 

 will be delighted to know that only four days before he 

 wrote this letter, he caught the model Crenis pechueli, Dew., 

 and labelled it as the mimic; also that he labelled two 

 unusually bright and fresh Crenidomimas taken in Port. E. 

 Africa (p. exxiii) as " Crenis."] I'. leonidas.F. (blue 8. form), 

 swarms! By the way, yesterday 1 saw a magnificent Ps. 

 boisduvali trimenii, But!., typically Eastern, high overhead 

 and so out of reach that all I could do was to break my neck 

 goggling up at it ! ! So that makes the third species of 

 Pseudacraea here. I'm/,/,, continues to be caught ! also 

 Charaxes ' 



" Dec. 7, 1917. Lulanguru. 



'" I have gol nine Nymphalines here in cop., in all of which 

 the $ carries ^— a Precis [actia, Dist., dry f.|, //. daedalus, F. 

 (twice), and Ps. i»><iu<'i. Dew. It seems to me that in Pierinae 

 the cj conies and in Nympkalinae the reverse. In a single 

 pair of Lycaenidae {Tarucus telicanus, bang)— the only one 

 1 have noted —the $ carried the 6*-" 



Between Dec. 15) and Jan. 2 Captain Carpenter captured 

 1 more pairs of telicanus, and in all but one, with the 

 smallest female (carried by the male) the male was being 

 carried by the female, and the same was true of a single 

 pair of Axiocerses amanga, Westw. (Djc 31), and of Alqena 

 interposita, Butl. (-Ian. I), as also of the Satyrine Yphthima 

 asterope, Klug (Dec. M). and the Acraeine A. encedon, L., 

 type form (Dec. 12). As this paper is being prepared for 



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