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clumps, and every here and there tufts of dried grass. 
The thorny scrub was mostly composed of a low-growing 
shrub bearing a small whitish flower with a slight nonde- 
script scent; this seemed rather attractive to the whites 
and their allies.” The great preponderance of Pierimes in 
this two-days collection at Mangala will be noticed. 
The remaining captures were all made at Gondokoro or 
in its immediate vicinity. With respect to them Mr. Loat 
writes as follows:—“ The series caught at Gondokoro 
[Jan. 12, 16] were collected on a strip of land cleared of 
elephant-grass and weeds, and turned into a kind of garden 
with sweet potatoes, etc., growing in it, and a few wild 
flowers about, close to the edge of the river. The Z. 
chrysippus, with hardly an exception, and also the Acrewas 
were obtained on, or close to, the same strip of ground, 
some of the remainder [Jan. 13, March 8] were taken on 
ground like that described at Mangala. The weather on 
January 8, 9, 12, 13, was dry, sunny and warm. The 
rainy season generally begins [at Gondokoro] about the 
15th of March, but this year (1902) it commenced about 
one month earlier; that is to say, we had occasional 
showers and squalls, with long intervals of fine weather. 
About the end of March the rains start with a certain 
amount of regularity, and last off and on till about October.” 
In the neighbourhood of Kaka, 6° further north, the rains 
are later. As was stated above, at Gharb-el-Aish, on April 
13 (1901), they were only just beginning. 
IV. BAHR-EL-GEBEL (Nile); Gonpbokoro; 4° 43’ N. 
Lat. Strip of ground by the river. 
1902, January 12. 
Between 3 and 4 p.m. 
| DANAINE. 
LIMNAS CHRYSIPPUS, Linn. 
LL chrysippus, Linn., 4 % (one with slight white powdering 
round gland-patch) ; a/eippoides, Moore, 1 2; alcippus, 
Cram., 2 $; klugii, Butl., 2 3; dorippus, Klug, 1 
ACRASIN Ai. 
ACRZA VINIDIA, Hewits. 
2 ip ie | ¢. “Very numerous; takes a long time to die 
when put in the killing-bottle.’—W. L. S. L. 
