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five flying together over a patch of it. This butterfly has 
a jerky flight, so that it proved to be not so very easy to 
catch as one at first imagined. Of 7’, senegalensis, Boisd., 
two males were taken. The Zerias were by no means so 
markedly “dry” as the Zeracoli. A single Papilio corinneus, 
Bert. [? angolanus, Goeze], was secured. 
The Lycenid# were not very prevalent, and no species 
was abundant. Of the handsome Stugeta bowkeri, Trim., 
and of Axiocerces amanga, Westw., we took single ex- 
amples, but A. harpax, Fabr., was commoner, especially 
among reeds and sedges at the water’s edge. Of Hypo- 
lycena cocculus, Hoptt., Zizera lysimon, Hiibn., and Liptena 
[= Durbania] pallida, Trim., we took but one each, the 
latter at flowers of Zpomea. 
The Skippers were represented by solitary male indi- 
viduals of Gegenes occulta, Trim., and Parnara mathias, 
Fabr. (= mahopaani, Trim., = inconspicua, Boisd.). 
In addition to the butterflies already named the follow- 
ing may be mentioned as being taken while drinking at 
the mud of small inlets and backwaters of the right bank 
of the river :— 
Both sexes of Acreva alboradiata, Auriv., and A. atolmis, 
Westw., of which latter the bright coppery-red looks on the 
wing almost blood-red. Belenois gidica, Godt., and Belenois 
mesentina, Cram., both males. Of Zerias brigitta, Cram., 
contrary to the usual rule with Pierines at water, a female 
was taken, but this species, though certainly attracted by 
water, is of a restless habit like Vphthima, and seldom 
settles. Of Papilio leonidas, Fabr., three specimens were 
taken at mud and others seen; lastly a specimen of 
Axiocerces amanga, Westw. 
So much for the butterflies found on the right bank. 
The moths were far less numerous, and the only things 
brought home were a Geometer, G'racillodes caffra, Guen. ; 
a Crambus sp. and another a small, and as yet unnamed 
Pyrale, Argyractis sp. 
As might have been expected Dragonflies were fairly 
numerous, especially a species with a full “cardinal-red ” 
body, Crocothemis erythrea, Brullé, which has a very wide 
range in Africa. Some of these were taken at mud 
puddles in the back-waters, others about the rocks which 
extend far into the river above the Falls, rocks on which 
one often saw the Snake-bird, Plotus levaillanti, sitting 
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