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of the remaining 17 hatching on the 4th day after the egg 

 was laid. When the catei^pillars were still quite young I left 

 Durban and went up country to a place called Dargle (4,400 

 feet) not without some anxiety for my little larvae, which had 

 all made a good start and were doing remarkably well. It 

 was much colder up at Dargle, and it rained almost every day, 

 but I was fortunate enough to find plenty of their wild food- 

 plant — Vejyris lanceolata — growing in Kimber's Bush, about 

 two miles distant from the hotel (and to which, thanks to the 

 kind permission of Mr. Kimber, 1 had free access), so that I 

 had not to resort to pillaging orchards for the leaves of orange 

 and lemon, which also grew in the neighbourhood. The larvae 

 grew as quickly and seemed to get on quite as well up here 

 as down on the coast. The butterfly occurred in Kimber's 

 Bush but was rather scarce, and I only saw males. On 

 February 2nd 4 of the larvae (I had still nearly 40 of them) 

 pupated, and 3 others were hanging up with that end in view. 

 After that they went on pupating every day, until at last I 

 had 38 pupae. The first emergence (1 ^) took place on 

 Feb. 19th; the next day, Feb. 20th, {1 $ $ and 1 trophonius 

 ?); Feb. 21, at Maritzburg ^iSS); Feb. 22, (1 ^ and 29$ 

 trophonius, and 1 $ cenea) ; Feb. 23, (4 ? $ trophonius, 2 of 

 which were spoilt by emerging on the journey from Maritz- 

 burg to Donnybrook) ; Feb. 24, (3 ? ? tro2)honius) ; Feb. 25, 

 (1 S); Feb. 26, (2 ? ? trophonius); Feb. 27, (1 $ and 2 

 ?? trophonius); Feb. 28, (1 $) ; March 1, {2^6); March 

 2, (1 $ tropihonius) ; March 4, {2 $ $ and 1 $ trophoniios) ; 

 March 5, \l $) ; March 6, (1 (^ and 1 $ cenea); March 7, 

 1 ? trophonius (deformed). Two others died in the pupa from 

 the cold, but both were going to be trophonius. 



"This makes a total of 37 (1 pupa having met with an 

 accident), out of which 16 were $ ^ (mostly of the broad- 

 bordered summer form, though some of those that emerged 

 in the cold at Donnybrook showed a slight inclination to 

 narrower, more broken borders) ; and of the 21 ? ?, 2 were 

 cenea and 19 were trophonius." 



Prof. PouLTON stated that Mr. G. F. Leigh of Durban had 

 written Oct. 5th, 1912, giving an account of an interesting 

 family he had just reared from a tropho7iius $ captured in the 



