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it had had opportunity to stridulate more than two 
or three times. He must have seen it from some 
distance away, for he jumped on to the branch and 
made straight for it, giving it no time to fight him. 
He did not, on this occasion, eat the horny front legs : 
perhaps he remembered vomiting on the last occasion 
(Obs. 194). 
Series Ag. Obs. 251-254. Jan. 15. 
Series Ah. Obs. 255-263. Jan. 15.—At noon, M. being 
hungry— 
. Obs. 259. Sp. 61.—Syrphid, Eristals tenax: 
this drone-fly had been quieted in a killing-bottle, but 
could crawl about. M. looked at it very suspiciously 
as it sat on the grass, then took it in his hand and threw’ 
it down precisely as he had done before (Obs. 117, 216). 
I induced him to take it up again: he gave it a little 
nip very gingerly, and threw it down. 
Obs. 260. Sp. 120.—Nymphaline, Hypolimnas 
misippus, 9: the well-known brown, black, and white 
mimic of D. chrysippus. The wings of one side had been 
cut off. The butterfly was offered to M. so that he 
could see it plainly. He took it and looked at it very 
thoroughly, and then put it into his mouth, holding 
the body in his teeth and pulling off the wings. He 
ate it slowly, with a good deal of mouthing, and evi- 
dently did not find it very palatable. 
Series Ak. Obs. 264-282. Jan. 15.—At 5 p.m. I took M. 
out hunting; owing to a thunder-cloud he was not 
very eager. 
Obs. 271. Sp. 6.—Meloid, Coryna dorsalis : M. saw 
this conspicuous beetle on a bare stem. He ran to it 
and touched it. It dropped and he left it. 
(Note—This was the first occasion when hunting 
that M. had taken any notice of this common and 
conspicuous beetle, which could be seen everywhere 
on low herbage.) 
We then had to shelter from a storm, after which I 
took M. to an old patch of cultivation, now weed- 
own. 
Obs. 272. Sp. 58.—Acridiid : M. caught a 3 of this 
grasshopper, a species of Tanita, procryptic, and ate 
part of it. He then saw the red wings, and hesitated 
a little, then continued, rather in doubt, and finally 
dropped it. Remains kept for record. 
TRANS, ENT. SOC. LOND. 1921,—PaRTSI, 1. (OCT.) D 
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