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course my find was a pure accident, and ought not to be 
mentioned along with such a wonderful bit of deliberate 
searching and finding as Lamborn’s was. And of course if 
it hadn’t been for Lamborn, the happy issue of this particu- 
lar accident would have been lost. So I gladly dedicate 
them to my friend. 
I mentioned that I allowed the ants to carry pupae into 
the concealment of the carton labyrinth, from which I 
afterwards abstracted most of them. A few I left in the 
hope that I might see how the ants behaved subsequently. 
I wondered if they assisted the imagos (or should I say 
imagines?) to emerge. Unfortunately I have quite a lot 
of other work to do, and in my absence two or three came 
out. I got back in time to rescue one which was caught 
by a leg by a worker ant. What I took to be the disin- 
tegrated remains of two I discovered under the carton 
mass, but they may have been devoured by the white ants 
which still were present. Later on another got caught by 
an ant and had to be rescued, and, as I really couldn’t get 
the time to look after them continuously enough to make 
useful observations, I was forced to separate them entirely 
from the ants. Yet in nature these newly emerged butter- 
flies would have to run the gauntlet of not a few easily 
excited and suspicious ants, and I am greatly disappointed 
at not being able to throw any light on the problem. I can 
only hope that I may one day see a newly emerged Lycaenid 
crawling out of the opening of a maculatus nest. There 
will be no scope for “ profane” labourers with forks. 
Escape may be facilitated by the fact that maculatus 1s, 
as I think I told you [pp. 423-25], of nocturnal habits. 
Agege. 
Sept. 18, 1917.—Five perfect and one malformed emerged 
to-day, which brings my total of good specimens up to 
nineteen. With anything like good luck I ought to manage 
two dozen and perhaps one or two more. I have to go to 
Lagos to-morrow and will be there two days. However, 
Ill take them with me. I am putting up at the Medical 
Research Institute, where they will be looked after while 
I carry out the purpose of my visit, which isn’t a very 
exciting one and is on the whole a most irksome one. 
Agege. 
Sept. 27, 1917.—The mail is announced for to-day. The 
train service is suspended owing to floods, but I am sending 
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