Production of Ilimetic R'e semblances among Butter jivis. 357 



he observed a drongo pursuing a butterfly {Hypolimnas 

 chiccei, Butl.) which it failed to capture. 



13. Dicrurus ludwigi, Smith (Lesser Drongo). " 16, viii, 



1908. In the same locality as yesterday, viz., the 

 edge of a patch of dense forest, saw a Lesser Drongo 

 {D. ludioigii), catch a damaged Catopsilia fiorella " : 

 S. A. Neave (note from diary ; N.E. of Lake Bano- 

 weolo). 



14. Hirundo montciri, Hartl. (Monteii'o's Swallow). " 13, 



vi, 1908. N.E. of Lake Bangweolo. Saw a large 

 swallow, probably H. montciri, capture a Tcracolus 

 1 cvenina which appeared to have been previously in- 

 jured " : S. A. Neave (note from diary). 



15. Hirundo sp. (Swallow). " I think 1 told you long ago 



of having found the wings of a lot of butterflies, 

 chiefly P. corinneus, below the branch of a tree on 

 which some swallows were constantly settling " : 

 C. F. M. Swynnerton, Tr. Ent. Soc, 1902, p. 358 

 (Gazaland). 



16. Cyijselus caffer, Licht. (S. Afrii an Swift). Observed to 



" take small moths from the grass and dart at Tcrias 

 raliel [hrigitta, Cram.] on our open flats": J. P. 

 Mansel Weale, " Nature," iii, p. 508. (Cape Colony.) 



17. Dicrocercus hirundineus, Licht. (Swallow- tailed Bee- 



Eater). " 11, X, '07. I watched to-day for about half- 

 an-hour a specimen of the Swallow-tailed Bee-Eater 

 {D. hirundinetis) hawking butterflies. As far as I 

 •could see he took nothing but Pierines, C. [Ccdo- 

 jjsilia] florella mostly, but one or two B. [Belenois] 

 nr. dentigcra, and one Tcrias'' (N.W. Rhodesia): 

 S. A. Neave (in a letter to Prof. Poulton). 



18. Merojjs pcrsiciis. Pall. (Blue-cheeked Bee-Eater), {a) 



" In the vicinity of every hole were numbers of 

 pellets, formed of the wings and other indiorestible 

 jtaits of dragon-Hies, butterflies, beetles, etc. " : S. Staf- 

 ford Allen, " Ibis," 1862, p. 359 (On the Nile).— (5) 

 Mr. C. F. M. Swynnerton has recently sent me a 

 butterfly which was taken from the stomach of one 

 of these birds at Cliibababa, Portuguese E. Africa, on 

 December 11, 1906. The insect is. an Acraca, be- 

 longing to the groEip represented by A. horta, L., but 

 is too much damaged for exact identification. The 

 same gentleman notes the dexterity of these birds in 

 icatchin; insects, but states: "Yet I saw one strike 



