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could get near her. However, I expect the fragments will 

 serve their purpose, and I have quite a good number of larvae. 

 I am catching all these female dardanus in the same neigh- 

 bourhood near three native villages close together 1| miles 

 off. This is doubtless because lime-trees are plentiful there 

 and not elsewhere in the bush." 



"Dec. 4, 1911. 



" My visit to Lagos was as usual disastrous from an 

 entomological point of view ; for most of my Plcmema larvae 

 died, 4 new Psychid moths (males) died and were eaten by 

 ants, and my dardanus males have lost their 'tails' and are 

 otherwise damaged. However, all the first family of dardanus 

 are out, save 3, and all the females are of the hippocoon form. 

 There are enough undamaged males for show specimens. The 

 man who volunteered to look after them explained their 

 damaged condition on the ground that they had emerged and 

 were fiying before he was up in the morning. 



" I watched all the others come out. They did so almost 

 uniformly at about 8 a.m. and were ready, both males and 

 females, to fly at about 'J. 30. None came out later in the 

 day. 



" I am satisfied that the freshly emerged males were more 

 on the alert against possible danger than the females; for if 

 one approached, even when the wings were wet and flaccid, 

 the males dropped down and attempted to crawl away, whereas 

 the females did not betray alarm. 



" The imagos were able to emerge and develop, whatever 

 the attitude of the pupa. Some having an insufficient girdle 

 were suspended head down, and two or three were on the floor 

 of the box." 

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"Dec. 17, 1911. 



" My two other families of /'. dardanus are now pupating. 

 I am disposed to think that the females oviposit more readily 

 when confined in a large box than when cramped up in a small 

 one. In common with such other female l'apilios as I have 

 observed ovipositing, — nireus, demodocus, menestheiis, and 

 police nes — they do so while still fluttering on the wing, and I 

 think that if their movements are hampered, they get 



