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member having seen before. I took six individuals all from 

 one spot. 



"The first one I saw completely took me in (though T 

 watched it for nearly five minutes while waiting for a net to 

 come up) not so much by its appearance as by its attitude. 

 It was sunning itself at the top of a grass-head with the wings 

 expanded but the primaries making an angle of 43 degrees 

 with the body and covering the secondaries, exactly as many 

 Acraeas sun themselves. All the time I was watching this 

 first specimen I was quite satisfied that I had got hold of a 

 new Acraea, the idea of a Lycaenid in such an attitude and 

 position never entering my head. 1 subsequently took in the 

 same spot five others, souk- of them doing the same thing, 

 others on the wing. The flight was less powerful than that 

 of Mimacraea marshalli, Trim." 



Mi'. 11. II. DftUGE and Mr. <;. T. BeTHUNB-BaKIR B1 



that the species was entirely new to them. 



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BBBD BEBIBS ok A.CBABA OBBSTIA AM) A. HUMILIS. — Mr. 



H. Eltringhau exhibited a bred Beriea of Acraea orestia, 

 Hew., containing the typical form, and also the .1. humilis 

 of Mi-- E. M. Sharpe, thus demonstrating the truth of the 



conclusion at which he had previously arrive. 1 a- to the 



■ identity of these two forms. The exhibil was 

 accompanied by an extract from a letter received bj Pro! 

 Poulton from Dr. G. I >. II. Carpenter, who had bred the series 

 at Damba Island, Victoria Nyanza, and who had generously 



presented the bj imens to the Hope Department at Oxford. 



Dr. Carpenter > note was as follows: "Reared, September 

 11 [It'll], larvae found very young, feeding all together on 

 one leaf, cheek by jowl. I took them for alciope larvae, 

 and was much surprised hy t lie ultimate result. Pupae and 

 larvae were both exactly like alciope so far as I could tell, 

 but I had no alciope larvae to compare with them at the 

 time, as no idea of a different species w bed." 



Mr. Eltiungham also exhibited a coloured drawing of the 

 larva of alciope in order to give an idea of the appearance of 

 the larvae from which orestia had been bred. He also showed 

 three <$ black and yellow Acraeas, one of which was the 



