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So neither you nor I need regret that I have left Dainba. 

 Ps. obscura seemed almost more abundant than on Damba, and 

 its model [/'/. paragea\ too (by the way, this seems to have 

 more yellow on it than the Damba specimens) ; aud on the 

 very first time I went there I caught the most lovely specimen 

 of a J'seudacraea intermediate between Ps. terra and Ps. obscura 

 — far better than anything I ever got on Damba. In what 

 I now regard as my apprenticeship to the Pseud acraeae I 

 certainly was misled, as you suggest, by the rudimentary vein 

 closing the hind cell. But now I can, with a certain degree 

 of confidence, distinguish them from their models on the wing 

 and at rest. Pseudacraeas are very much more alert, and 

 rarely rest with the complete 'abandon' of the Planemas. 

 Moreover, Ps. obscura and terra have a curious shiny appear- 

 ance about them, especially on the under surface, as if they had 

 been varnished; and, in the 'cadaver, 1 I find very many points 

 of difference. l'seuducraeas have much thicker bodies; the 

 palpi are larger; the antennae have practically no club, only 



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a gradual thickening; and the shape of the wings is slightly 



different 



The following DOtefl were written February 25th: — 



"I think you will bo delighted that 1 have left I>aniba ; 



for the disproportion between Planema and Pseudaeraea is 

 even greater here, so much so that I look on Pseudacraeas 

 as nothing, but consider it an event to catch a Planema/ Of 

 Pseudacraeas : terra abounds, obsewra is not quite so plentiful, 

 but lovely intermediates between the two are nearly as 

 common as the types, Hobleyi is, I think, the scarcest — at 

 any I ate the female. I have only seen three /'/. paragea (two 

 of which I caught and send you), no PI. poggei or maearista, 

 and very few teUas. I have seen no A. al<-i<>jf at all, but 

 Precis ra/uana occurs though I have not succeeded in catching 

 it. On February 25th 1 saw two male hobleyi pursuing a 

 terra in a very suggestive manner, and a terra pursuing a 

 female hobleyi which fluttered stationary in the air also very 

 suggestively." 



[The following sentence was extracted from a later letter 

 written from Sesse on May let : "I have already told you 



