(, 20e) [lvi, lvii 
1905. 
January 19 Morning : captured 10 wahlbergi and saw 3 others, 1 
badly crippled. Afternoon: saw 2 more wahlbergi, 
no mima, but had 2 perfect specimens of latter given 
me, captured about 3 p.m. in another part of Stella 
Bush. They had only just emerged, and the wings 
were hardly dry. 
20 Captured 3 wahlbergi and saw 1 mima in morning. 
» 21 and 22. Not in Durban. 
23 Captured 2 wahibergi in morning and 2 in afternoon ; 
saw 4 others, including a pair in coitw; captured 1 
mima just out and saw another in afternoon. 
24 Captured 5 wahlbergi and saw 4 others in morning, 
raining all afternoon. 
25 Captured 2 wahlbergi and saw 1 other in morning ; saw 
1 mima in afternoon. <A dull damp day. 
26 Captured 1 wahlbergi* and saw another in morning ; 
captured 1 freshly emerged mima in afternoon. 
Raining nearly all day. 
27 Afternoon : captured 3 wahlbergiand saw 1 other ; saw 
2 mima in coitu. Wet, dull morning. 
” 
At this point the observations ceased, as I was unable to 
continue my regular visits to the locality in which the above 
recorded notes were made. 
To sum up :—Between December 16, 1904, and January 
27, 1905, I captured, saw, or heard of being captured just 121 
EL. wahilbergi, and between January 9 and 27, 1905, I captured, 
saw, or heard of being captured just 20 mima. 
These numbers, especially of mima, are greatly in excess of 
anything that I have before observed in this locality. The 
mima captured in the season 1904-5 indeed exceed the total 
that I have been able to obtain in the five previous seasons 
together, that is during the whole of my experience of this 
locality. This remarkable abundance I attribute to the fact 
that the glade had only been made about three and a half 
months, and was therefore practically virgin ground. 
Although I saw wahlbergi in coitu on several occasions 
and mima once, I never saw the two forms pairing together, 
and not very frequently flying together, except on the after- 
noon of January 12, when there was a very bad storm with 
* A crippled ? kept alive for ova without success. 
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