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 This is all stopped now by the Administration, but it will take 

 the country a long time to recover. 



" I have not taken very much of Bionomic interest lately, 

 except 5 or 6 specimens of a sp. of Euphxdra, probably E. eusem- 

 oides, Grose-Smith and Kirby — the one with a yellowish bar 

 across the fore-wing and a magenta black-bordeied hind-wing, 

 which mimics a gaily coloured diurnal Agaristid moth of the 

 genus Eusemia. I did not take the moth, which is common 

 everywhere at the beginning and during the middle of the 

 rains, because I think I was too late for it. I have noticed 

 before that individuals of the genus Eupha'dra seem to be 

 very long-lived and live on until their wings are mere shreds. 

 When I was on the Lufupa River last October at the end of 

 the dry season there were a number of much-worn individuals 

 haunting the shady di-y river beds, evidently survivors from 

 the previous wet season. The interesting thing about the 

 above species of Eu2^hivdra is that it differs in its habits from 

 its allies. It spends little or none of its time on the ground 

 as they nearly all do, but is constantly flying around trees 

 and large shrubs, — the very thing its model is fond of doing. 

 One or two of my specimens were caught by sending small 

 boys up trees after them. 



"I have taken at least two species of Hesperidee with well- 

 marked Acraeine under surface." 



Professor E. B. Poulton also exhibited a set of 23 butter- 

 flies captured on a patch of Zinnia in the course of half-an- 

 hour, Feb. 21, 1906, at Jinja (3775 ft.), on the K of the 

 Victoria Nyanza, by Mr. C. A. Wiggins, F.E.S. Seventeen 

 specimens were Danaida dirysippus, L., of the type and alcip- 

 pus forms, together with intermediate examples. Not a single 

 specimen of dorippus {klugii) was present, although of three 

 females of Ilypolimnas misippus, L., two were of the inaria, 

 Cr., form, mimicking dorippus. Similarly of two Acr<ea 

 encedon, L., one was the form daira, Godm. and Salv., resem- 

 bling the same model. The twenty-third specimen was a 

 female of Acrxa terpsichore rougeti, Guer., a very poor and per- 

 haps incipient mimic of the type form of chrysippus. Professor 

 Poulton pointed out that at Gondokoro to the N., Entebbe to 



