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the press the following note has arrived, written May 5, 1918, 

 at Isipingo, on the coast near Durban, where ('apt. Carpenter 

 is spending his leave : " A propos of pairs in cop. I saw on 

 the 2nd something of considerable interest. A line pair of 

 P. dewdanus, Brown, flew by in cop., alighted close by, flew 

 off again, alighted and flew off once more, so that there was 

 no possible doubt whatever that the cenea, Stoll, was 

 supporting the o. which remained passive with wings closed. 

 Of course 1 had no net, and so could not secure the specimens; 

 but 1 think the observation of value as it is so difficult to make 

 out which sex carries which in Papilioninae, and one doesn't 

 often see Papilios in cop." 



[The specimens from Isipingo (1918) have now arrived and 

 include the following pairs of Pierinae, in all of which the 

 male carried the female : Eronia cleodara, Hiibn., May 13; 

 Teracolus omphale, Godt,, May 11; Belenois gidica, Godt.j 

 May 23; also a pair from Saranda, 7 m. N. of Kilimatindi, 

 ex-G.E.A., Feb. 5; B. severina, Cr., May 13 and June 6. 

 In addition to the Pierines the Nymphaline Byblia goetzius, 

 Herbst,, May 13, the male carrying female. From Ankwabe, 

 Port, E. Africa, 40° E., 13° S. (1918), the following very 

 interesting Acraeine pairs: 3 A. ceddarena, Hew., the larger 

 female carrying the smaller male, Aug. 1, the larger male 

 carrying the smaller female, July 29 and 31; 2 .1. natalica, 

 Boisd., female carrying male in both, female distinctly larger 

 in one pair, Aug. 29, a little smaller in the other, July 31. 

 Also the Pierine Terias brigitta, Cr. (dry-season form), smaller 

 male carrying larger female, duly 1. and similarly in a wet- 

 season pair from 34° 55' E., 4° 40' S., ex-G.E.A., Feb. 12. 

 From Monapo, Port. E. Africa, 30 m. due \Y. of the coast 

 opposite Mozambique Islands (1918) : Acraea oncaea, Hopff., 

 the male carrying the distinctly smaller female. Sept. 15; 

 Neptis agatha, Cr., the female carrying the much smaller 

 male, Sept. 1 1.] 



[These results may be compared with those recorded by 

 the Rev. George Wheeler in w ' The Entomologist's Record" 

 for 1918, p. 152. In the single pair of Dryas paphia observed 

 by Mr. Wheeler the male was carrying the female; but 

 Mr. II. Donisthorpe (" Record," L918, p. 171). Mr. Colthrup 



