( fxi ) 



crawling everywhere in the objectionable manner I have 

 mentioned, until one is forced to bottle him — one cannot 

 get rid of him otherwise. As many times as he is hurled 

 away with frightful curses back he comes— until one is sick 

 of him ! Before rain is the time, — and I have had as many as 

 twenty come one after another ! " 



Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter's observation of the epigamic 



USE OF ITS anal BRUSHES BY THE MALE AmAURIS PSYTTALEA, 



Plotz. — Prof. Poulton read the following note extracted 

 from a letter written to him, July 23, 1914, from Kome 

 Island in the N.W. of the Victoria Nyanza, by Dr. G. D. H. 

 Carpenter : — • 



" On July 21 at the edge of the forest here on Kome Island, 

 about 3 p.m., I saw the courtship of Amauris psyttalea, Plotz. 

 I noticed two flying about, obviously a male pursuing a female. 

 Presently the latter settled on an erect dead flower-spike of 

 an aromatic labiate, about two feet above the ground. She 

 sat with head upwards, and body perpendicular, wings out- 

 spread at right angles. The o hovered fiutteringly about 

 four inches over her head, rising and falling a little, but on 

 the whole at about the same level. His abdomen hung down 

 a little and every now and then, at intervals of a few seconds, 

 the two flaps [the cS claspers, especially large in Danaines] 

 at the end of the body were widely separated (so as to stand 

 out at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the body) and 

 the brush was quickly protruded and as quickly drawn in 

 again. I was surprised to see what a large structure it Ava.s- - 

 being quite white and visible at a distance of several yards. 

 In fact, I first noticed it at that distance, and went closer to 

 see what was going on. The $ sat quite still, except for an 

 occasional very slight movement of the wings. I watched 

 for a minute or so, and it was impossible to doubt that the o 

 was endeavouring to excite the 2. Just as I thought I would 

 catch them as records, the ? suddenly flew away and the q 

 followed. I have, however, no doubt of the species. 



" The very sudden protrusion of the brush might easily 

 cause the peculiar fine hairs of stellate section, described by 

 Eltringham, to break into sections which would float like dust 

 in the air." 



