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The following exti-act from tbe same letter of Dec. 10 

 referred to the four wings of a male Ac7'aea orina, Hew. 

 The detached wings were exhibited by Professor Poulton, 

 together with the left forewing of Eiiralia anthedon, Doubl., 

 found on the ground by Dr. Carpenter on Dec. 17. 



*' I found some wings of a red Acraea neatly clipped off 

 lying together on a leaf, and a bird-dropping beside, as if a 

 bird had dropped both ! I send the wings. It is a curious 

 thing that out of 40-50 bee-eaters (of three species) I have 

 shot, to see if Glossina could be found in their stomachs, never 

 a single one has eaten a Lepidopteron ! They seem to live, 

 here, entirely on Dragonflies and Hymenoptera. True, I have 

 shot most of them on the shore, and not in the forest where 

 they ai'e high up out of reach ; but I suppose the same ones 

 frequent both shore and forest. It is rather curious they will 

 eat the hugest dragonflies — larger than the big brown chap at 

 home ! " 



The following extracts were from the letter dated Dec. 17, 

 describing the last of these three days' captures : — 



^' Dec. 17. To-day (Sunday) I had my last collecting in 

 Damba forest, with satisfactory results. There were great 

 numbers of the pale Planema arenaria, of which I send a 

 number. Curiously enough, on my way to the forest, I saw 

 one in the 'jungle,' where I have never seen it before. You 

 will see a very beautiful specimen of the dark Pseudacraea 

 obscura. On the wing, this Pseudacraea far more closely 

 resembles the pale PI. arenaria (of which there were swarms 

 to-day) than it does the darker PL faragea. Both arenaria 

 and obscura have rather a translucent, pale effect (the little 

 yellow on the Pseudacraea shows up very plainly) ; whereas in 

 PL imragea the yellow doesn't show, and it has just a sooty 

 appearance. The flight of the Pseudacraea is also much more 

 like that of arenaria than jxiragea, which is venj feeble. Still, 

 one must admit that the detailed marking in the cadaver 

 (especially the basal red triangle) is much closer to paragea, 

 although on the wing the likeness is the other way. I got 

 another A. alciope to-day — a male — I haven't seen a female, 

 but the forest is most certainly not the ideal place for it. The 

 Ps. terra I was trying to get ova from escaped one day, so now 



