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Eltringham. A. quirina: n specimens captured and i bred, 

 52 specimens, including several pupae and some larval skins, 

 bred from a number of larvae which had scattered, but almost 

 certainly belonged to a single company. A single specimen 

 of this species found on the upper side of a leaf with both 

 hind wings shorn off has been added to the bionomic series. 

 A. admatha: the 22 catalogued specimens include many bred 

 imagines, together with their pupa-cases and larval skins, 

 and the same is the case with many of the 44 examples of 

 A. zetes. The Acraeas also included single examples of 

 neobirte sets and camaena, and 2 of egina. 



A portion of the extremely fine collection from the neigh- 

 bourhood of and within the forest on Mt. Chirinda (about 

 3,800 ft.), Melsetter,Gazaland, S.E. Rhodesia, collected over two 

 or three years previous to 19 10 by C. F. M. Swynnerton, Esq., 

 and presented by him, has now been catalogued and the speci- 

 mens incorporated. Of Papilio dardanus there have been in- 

 corporated in the general collection 22 cr^s and 20 hippocoon 

 ? s, and of Papilio echerioides, 360*8 and 145 s. A fine mimetic 

 group shows the relationship, on both the upper and under 

 surfaces of the wing, of these two Papilios to their Danaine 

 models. It includes 2 Amanris niavius dominicanus, with 

 their mimics 2 hippocooii $ s of dardanus ; 2 Danaida cJiry- 

 sippus, with their mimics 2 trophonins ? s of dardanus (one 

 of these latter had been presented in 1905 by G. A. K. 

 Marshall, Esq.) ; 2 Amanris cclieria lobengula and 2 Am. albi- 

 maculata, with their mimics 2 cenca ? s of dardanus and 

 2 ? s of P. echerioides. Two o^s of the latter species were 

 added for comparison. The whole of this group was captured 

 in or in the immediate neighbourhood of the small patch of 

 virgin forest on Mt. Chirinda. 



The Acraeinae of this great donation have also been in- 

 corporated, 208 having been permanently catalogued and 

 large numbers of additional specimens added to the Univer- 

 sity Collection. This fine series includes 4 Acraea rabbaiae, 

 2 satis, 4 machequena, 15 egina areca, 3 acrita, 18 aglaonice, 

 28 igola, 26 esebria including fine varieties of ? , 8 johnstoni, 

 7 Planema aganice. The whole series gives a very fine idea 



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