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The following notes and observations on the three families 

 of dardanths had been extracted from letters written by Mr. 

 W, A. Lamborn to Professor Poulton : — 



" Oni Camp, 70 miles E. of Lagos, 



"Nov. 27, 1911. 

 " I send all that remains of the female parent of my second 

 dardanus family, for I took the female Mona with me while I 

 was doing some gardening, and she ran off when my attention 

 was occupied and took the butterfly out of its box before I 

 could get near her. However I exjiect the fragments will 

 serve their purpose, and I have quite a good number of larvae. 

 I am catching all these female dardanus in the same neigh- 

 bourhood near three native villages close together li miles 

 off. This is doubtless because lime-trees are plentiful there 

 and not elsewhere in the bush." 



"Dec. 4, 1911. 



" My visit to Lagos was as usual disastrous from an 

 entomological point of view ; for most of my Planema larvae 

 died, 4 new Psychid moths (males) died and were eaten by 

 ants, and my dardanus males have lost their ' tails ' and are 

 otherwise damaged. However all the first family of dardanus 

 are out, save 3, and all the females are of the hippocooii form. 

 There are enough undamaged males for show specimens. The 

 man who volunteered to look after them explained their 

 damaged condition on the ground that they had emerged and 

 were flying before he was up in the morning. 



" I watched all the others come out. They did so almost 

 uniformly at about 8 a.m. and were ready, both males and 

 females, to fly at about 9.30. None came out later in the 

 day. 



"I am satisfied that the freshly emerged males were more 

 on the alert against possible danger than the females ; for if 

 one approached, even when the wings were wet and flaccid, 

 the males dropped down and attempted to crawl aAvay, whereas 

 the females did not betray alarm. 



" The imagos were able to emerge and develop, whatever 

 the attitude of the pupa. Some having an insufficient girdle 

 were suspended head down, and two or three were on the floor 

 of the box," 



