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68 Dr, G. D. H. Carpenter’s Experiments on 
| 
Ne Obs. No. Name. Colour, sity | Remarks. 
261 540 | Baris sp. p + -+ | Small, black. 
281 594 | Alcides sp. PP. +--+ | Dark bark-brown. 
26 36 ? PE. +-+- | A ground-weevil of earthy 
| | colour, hard, rugose. 
74 146 ? a + | Very large, dull grey, 
| sluggish, very hard, 
146 | 321, 332 ? P. ++ | Black, speckled with 
whitish. 
204 432 ? PP +--+ | Soft browns and greens. 
285 604 | ? PP +-+ | Light grey with longi- 
tudinal dark stripes. 
General remarks on the CURCULIONIDAE. 
These beetles appear to be eminently edible, and pro- 
cryptic. Only two species were treated at all doubtfully 
and both appeared to be very hard; one of them (74) 
seems to be a model for the abnormal Longicorn 75. (See 
Obs. 147.) 
It is hardly possible to get a more interesting contrast 
than that between the weevils and the group of Chryso- 
melidae and the allied Phytophaga. 
The weevils are P and +, the latter A and —. The 
table in Section III of this paper shows this very graphic- 
ally. Yet both are vegetarian and have similar habits in 
the adult state. It was particularly interesting in the 
field to find side by side on the same plants the Kumolpid 
188 (AA —) and the weevil 253 (P-+--++), one relying for 
protection upon advertisement, the other upon concealment. 
| 
LEPIDOPTERA. 
Danaidae 
286A 606 Danaida chrysippus L. AA | + | Orange-brown with black- 
and-white tip. 
286B) 609 Do. form dorippus Klug. Ao} + All orange-brown. 
Satyridae. | 
107 223 Neocoenyra prob. gregorit P | + | Brown, with reddish 
Butl. | ‘** Bye-spots.” 
Acraeidae. 
104 | 219,225, | Acraea caldarena Hew., f. AA —— | Foran Acraea this is wary 
317 neluska Oberth, and difficult to catch. 
141 315 Acraea neobule Dbl. AA _ Both these are thinly 
sealed, black and pink, 
Nymphalidae. 
80 163 Precis clelia, aa? M. took no notice of this 
when hunting; if he did 
} | perceive it, it should be 
| in ——— class, 
93 | 199, 293, | Precis cebrene Trim. jr ++ Large orange blotches on 
481 | dark ground, 
151 326 Precis sesamus (2). A | + This wet-season salmon 
’ | pink form is held by 
| Prof. Poulton to be 
synaposematic, 
171 357 Precis antilope Feisth. @) A + | Closely resembles the 
= simia Wallgrn. above, 
