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placed beside the 13 individuals of the first family to which 

 they belong. This is the first time that the species has been 

 bred, and the form of the pupa is of much interest, indicating 

 affinity with H. salmacis and monteironis rather than with 

 dubia and wahlbergi. The long series of bred females of 

 a species rather rare in collections also establishes the fact 

 that this sex is non-mimetic and the male mimetic on the W. 

 coast, while in Uganda both sexes are mimetic and alike, 

 with a pattern rather different from that of the West, and 

 corresponding to the presence of different Danaine models. 



(2) Thirteen families of Hypolimnas {Euralia) dubia and 

 antliedon, with their female parents, captured Feb. -June, 

 1 91 2, in the forest E. of OnL These families, with the 7 

 others bred by Mr. Lamborn in the previous year, first proved 

 that attthedon and all the forms of dttbia are a single species 

 with individuals split up into various patterns mimicking 

 four different Danaine species in their locality. Of the 1912 

 parents 8 were dttbia, and their offspring as well as those of 3 

 antliedon always included both anthedon and dubia: the 2 

 remaining anthedon produced anthedon only. The numerical 

 proportion as well as the fact that a single ? anthedon (in 

 191 1) produced only dubia, leaves no doubt that dubia is 

 dominant and anthedon recessive. Although this conclusion 

 seems to be established, some of the results obtained in the 

 course of these experiments appear to be inexplicable under 

 any existing hypothesis. The total number of catalogued 

 specimens, including several pupae, is 787. 



(3) Ten families of Hypolimnas misipptts, of which all the 

 females and a few of the males have been catalogued — 262 

 specimens in all. The females of this species are dimorphic 

 on the W. coast, appearing as the type form misipptts and 

 the form inaria. Mr. Lamborn's results show that misipptts 

 is dominant, inaria recessive, thus confirming the work of 

 the Rev. K. St. Aubyn Rogers on the E. coast (see p. 955). 



A complete analysis of the Oni families, to be published at 

 no distant date, will furnish far more detailed information 

 concerning the hereditary relationships than has been as yet 

 obtained in this species. 



