Life History of Pset'dacraea eurytus hoUeyi, 715' 



Series G. — Female parent a typical ^ hohleyi, captured 

 on flowers at the edge of the forest, Aug. 6, 1912. 



BemarJcs. — No. 2 a typical ^ hohleyi. All the others 

 typical female hohleyi except No. 4 and No. 6, in which 

 the white bar of the hind wing is continued on to the fore- 

 wing SO as to meet, or nearly meet, the subapical white 

 bar. This latter feature is seen in the parent. 



There were, alas, seven other eggs, but six young larvae 

 died soon after hatching, one as a result of 3rd moult. 

 All the survivors were pure hohleyi. 5 $ $, 1 ^. 



From the results I have obtained so far, it appears that 

 form hohleyi has a very strong influence and it is the most 

 distinct form, (dominant in the oion-MendeVmn sense). 

 Let me tabulate the following reasons. 



I. An enormous number of otherwise more or less 

 typical terra and ohscura have a reddish tint at 

 base of the hindwing under surface, and this 

 applies still more to a large number of inter- 

 mediates strongly tinted with hohleyi. 



II. But though terra-hohleyi, and ohscura-hohleyi are 

 common enough, yet I have not yet, so far as I 

 am aware, sent you a single specimen of hohleyi- 

 terra or hohleyi-ohscura — i. e. a form which you 

 could say was hohleyi tainted with ohscura or 

 terra. 



III. I have not hred a pure hohleyi from terra, or ohscura. 



IV. Lastly (which seems most important) from two 



hohleyi parents I have bred, on the one hand, in 

 series E, a typical hohleyi and two intermediates 

 (no typical terra or ohscura), on the other, in series 

 G, six ofispring, of which not one was anything 

 hut typical hohleyi ! This seems extremely interest- 

 ing, and I suppose indicates that hohleyi is the 

 longest established form in Uganda at any rate. 



