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Butl.] is quite common. I fancy it is not quite of the same 

 form as the one I am used to on the islands [lucretia 

 lucretia, Cr.]. 



" Ps. boisduvali trimenii, Butl. — I have to-day caught my 

 first specimen of this splendid Eastern form. It is certainly 

 much more like its model zetes acara [anemosa in the Lulan- 

 guru collection, see p. cxviii] (also of Eastern form here) than 

 the specimens I caught on the islands. Perhaps the yellow 

 suffusion in each case helps. [The ochreous subapical patch 

 on the fore-wing is well developed in this <J example of 

 the Eastern trimenii.] This specimen was flying high, and 

 floating about in an exasperating way until it at last came 

 within reach of a vigorous swoop. Seeing that both trimenii 

 and poggei exist here I shall keep a sharp look-out for imitator ! 

 It would be splendid to get that too. 



" The only other Nymphaline I have to mention from here 

 is a Precis of a form new to me which 1 think may be a dry- 

 season form [either arckesia, Cr., or antilope, Feisth.] of one 

 that I have hitherto only met ' wet,' but it is difficult to 

 carry the differences in one's head without having specimens 

 for comparison. There was an interesting form [P. antilope, 

 Feisth., wet form simia, Wallgr.] which I first met with last 

 January : it continued abundant all through the rains, after 

 which it vanished, and has not yet put in an appearance 

 again : * it interested me chiefly because its underside very 

 closely resembled that of the wet or natalensis, Staud., 

 form of P. octavia, Cr., though the upperside was very 

 distinct." 



Capt. Carpenter's collection made during his journey with 

 the Belgian Northern Forces and his sojourn at various camps 

 contains a most interesting series of 5 species of Precis in which 

 the seasonal differences are marked, and, in all except artaxia 

 Hew., extraordinary. As so little is known of the butterfly 

 fauna of the area he traversed 1 have thought it desirable 

 to add on pp. exxviii-exxxi a tabula]' statement of these five 



* " Since 1 wrote the above this Precis has appeared, simultaneously 

 with the wet form of octavia, Cr. : the coincidence is very striking." 

 [Note added to duplicate copy of the account of Lulanmini, posted 

 Dec. 24, H)17. It will be seen in the tabular statement that the wet 

 form of octavia first appeared on Dec. 15, of antilope on Dec. 17.] 



