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 from ova before, owing no doubt to the larvae being sleeved 



in the etrij on the living food plant. I shall always 



adopt this method in future. The parent of this family was 



captured at Pinetown, Natal, and it is interesting that the 



Hens similar to Nos > v that 1 bred early in 



the year, were also roared from Pinetown larvae. 



••<;. P. l.KUiu." 



Later in the year 1910 Mr. Leigh succeeded in breeding 



two more examples of the new leighi form of female, as stated 

 in the following extracts from letters received from him : — 



"A MO. 



'• I have bred one more of the tine variety of . 

 similar to the two sent yon. This one, curiously enough, IS also 

 from the 01 •■■ here bred are from 



that form of parent. 



••I have bred in all about 250 /'. dardemus omea from 

 different parents: obtaining only v form ^\ the ?, 



about 14 tropkonitu and 12 the others being males." 



WW 



no. 



is form seems now likely to establish itself in tin- part 

 of the country, as I have hied another one from a wild larva 

 found at Sydenham, about three miles from here. It was a 



very large, splendid specimen. 



ii." 



female parent of the family exhibited was captured by 

 Mr. Leigh on June 26, 1910, at Pinetown, Natal (about 



rth 28th. The 

 i typical • with a slight fulvous sufl 



in the costal section and also along vein ."> of the sul I 

 bar of the fore-wing, and without an api 



within the for ell is divided, the detached outer end 



ish and obscurely defined. The large costal part of 



the mark: thsr broad and short, in the form oi an 



angle with its base towards B litary 



influence is clearly manifest among the offspring, in the 



