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a gradual thickening ; and the shape of the wings is slightly 

 different." 



The following notes were written February 25th : — 



" I think you will be delighted that I have left Damba ; 

 for the disproportion between Planema and Pseudacraea is 

 even greater here, so much so that I look on Pseudacraeas 

 as nothing, but consider it an event to catch a Planema ! Of 

 Pseudacraeas; terra abounds, ohscura is not quite so plentiful, 

 but lovely intermediates between the two are nearly as 

 common as the types. Hohleyi is, I think, the scarcest — at 

 any rate the female. I have only seen three PL paragea (two 

 of which I caught and send you), no PI. poggei or macarista, 

 and very few tellus. I have seen no A. alciope at all, but 

 Precis rauana occurs though I have not succeeded in catching 

 it. On February 25th I saw two male hohleyi pursuing a 

 terra in a very suggestive manner, and a terra pursuing a 

 female hohleyi which fluttered stationary in the air also very 

 suggestively." 



[The following sentence was extracted from a later letter 

 written from Sesse on May 1st : "I have already told you 

 that I have seen male Ps. hohleyi flirting with female Ps. terra, 

 and vice versd — both hovering flutteringly in the air. Since 

 then I have seen a male Ps, ohscura paying court to a female 

 Ps. terra in the same way. This makes the observations com- 

 plete ! They were some 10-15 feet above the groiand, and 

 out of reach in every case. I am quite convinced that copula- 

 tion and oviposition take place quite high up among the tree 

 tops."] 



" So far I have not succeeded in getting eggs, though I 

 have kept four females full of ova : three have died without 

 result, the fourth I have had for a week, and it is still living 

 though it has hardly any wings left ! " 



Dr. Carpenter had also written in confirmation on April 

 27th : — " You will have seen from the first few I sent — which 

 I hope to hear about in a week or so — how splendidly Sesse 

 confirms the Damba records, the results being still more 

 striking. I am so proud that I can supply such grand proof 

 of the reality of the power of Natural Selection." 



Prof, PouLTON said that the Bugalla specimens of PL 



