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that I have seen male Ps. hobleyi flirting with female Ps. terra, 

 and vice versd — both hovering flutteringly in the air. Since 

 then I have seen a male Ps. obscura paying court to a female 

 Ps. terra in the same way. This makes the observations com- 

 plete ! They were some 10-15 feet above the ground, and 

 out of reach in every case. I am quite convinced that copula- 

 tion and oviposition take place quite high up among the tree 

 tops."] 



" So far I have not succeeded in getting eggs, though I 

 have kept four females fall of ova : three have died without 

 result, the fourth I have had for a week, and it is still living 

 though it has hardly any wings left ! " 



Dr. Carpenter had also written in confirmation on April 

 27th : — " You will have seen from the first few I sent — which 

 I hope to hear about in a week or so — how splendidly Sesse 

 confirms the Damba records, the results being still more 

 striking. I am so px-oud that I can supply such grand proof 

 of the reality of the power of Natural Selection." 



Prof. Poulton said that the Bugalla specimens of PI. 

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paragea, Grose-Smith, a male and a female, were of great interest 

 because of the extended pale markings, resembling those of 

 the most extreme varieties obtained by Mr. Wiggins in the 

 neighbourhood of Entebbe. The five specimens from Damba 

 Island, mentioned in these Proceedings (1912, p. xxiii), were 

 on the contrary very dark forms. Mr. VViggins's darkest and 

 lightest examples were exhibited December 6, 1911 (Proceed- 

 ings, p. xci). An account of the Sesse Pseudacraeas would 

 be given at a later meeting when more material had arrived, 

 but in the meantime it might be stated that the intermediate 

 varieties between obscura and terra were a large proportion of 

 the whole, and that they formed the most complete transition 

 from the one pattern to the other. Dr. Carpenter's observa- 

 tions on the courtship of the Pseudacraeas of the hobleyi group 

 afforded interesting confirmation of Dr. Jordan's conclusions 

 based on the structure of the male armature. Pseudacraea 

 kuenowi hypoxantha, Jord., was present in Dr. Carpenter's 

 captures on Bugalla, although absent from those on Damba. 

 Prof. Poulton had now received the whole of the butterflies 



