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but I was fortunate enough to find plenty of their wild food- 

 plaut — Vepria Umceolata — growing in Kitnber's Bush, about 

 two miles distant from the hotel (and to which, thanks to the 

 kind permission of Mr. Kimber, 1 had free access), so that I 

 had not to resort to pillaging orchards for the leaves of orange 

 and lemon, which also grew in the neighbourhood. The larvae 

 grew as quickly and seemed to get on quite as well up here 

 as down on the coast. The butterfly occurred in Kimber's 

 liush but was rather scarce, and I only saw males. On 

 February 2nd 4 of the larvae (1 had still nearly 40 of them.) 

 pupated, and 3 others were hanging up with that end in view. 

 After that they went on pupating every day, until at last I 

 had .'!H pupae. The first emergence (1 ^) took place on 

 Feb. 19th; the next day, Feb. 20th, {2 <$ 6 and 1 trophonitu 

 V); Feb. 21, at Maritzburg (3 <$ 6) J Feb. 22, (1 <J and 299 

 trophonitu, and 1 9 ceiiea) ; Feb. 23, (4 9? trophonitu, "_' of 

 which were spoilt by emerging <>n the journey from Maritz- 

 burg to Donnybrook) j Feb. 24, (3 9 9 trophonitu) ; Feb. 25, 

 (1 <$); Feb. 26, (2 9 9 trophonitu); Feb. 27, (1 J and 2 

 9 9 trophonitu); Feb. 28, (1 <$) ; March 1. (2<$cJ); March 

 2, (1 V trophonitu) ; March 4, (2 J ^ and 1 $ trophonitu); 

 March 5, (1 <$) ; March 6, (1 ^ and 1 9 ceiiea); March 7. 

 1 9 trophonitu (deformed). Two others died in the pupa from 

 the cold, but both were going to be trophonitu. 



"This make-, a total of 37 (1 pupa having met with an 

 accident), out of which 16 were ^ £ (mostly of the broad- 

 bordered summer form, though some of those that emerged 

 in the cold at Donnybrook showed a Blight inclination to 

 narrower, more broken borders); and of the 21 9 9» 2 were 

 ceiiea and 19 were troji/ionius." 



Prof. Poulton stated that Mr. G. F. Leigh of Durban had 

 written Oct. 5th, 1912, giving an account of an interesting 

 family he had just reared from a trophonitu 9 captured in the 

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Durban district. The trophonitu parent was exhibited to the 

 meeting The family was of the following constitution : — 



1 1 males, 6 being very dark on the under surface ; 4 

 trophonitu females; 2 hippocoon females; 1 leiyhi female, a 

 very fine and splendid specimen ; and 9 cenea females. 



