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  two 
  with 
  6 
  ^S, 
  one 
  with 
  own, 
  and 
  a 
  hippocoon 
  x 
  y 
  ^^ 
  is 
  laying. 
  

   Now 
  that 
  a 
  wet 
  spell 
  is 
  over 
  I'll 
  try 
  and 
  make 
  a 
  start 
  before 
  

   leaving 
  home, 
  but 
  unluckily 
  my 
  foot 
  is 
  better 
  and 
  I 
  can't 
  

   postpone 
  long 
  ! 
  

  

  " 
  It 
  is 
  unlucky 
  for 
  further 
  breeding 
  that 
  the 
  c3 
  emergences 
  

   have 
  been 
  so 
  few. 
  Only 
  one 
  y 
  ov 
  6 
  (^ 
  until 
  the 
  day 
  before 
  

   yesterday." 
  

  

  Prof. 
  Poulton 
  said 
  it 
  was 
  very 
  interesting 
  that 
  Mr. 
  Swyn- 
  

   nerton 
  had 
  now 
  confirmed 
  — 
  although 
  larger 
  numbers 
  were 
  

   very 
  desirable 
  — 
  the 
  conclusions 
  set 
  forth 
  in 
  Proc. 
  Ent. 
  Soc, 
  

   1914, 
  p. 
  Ixviii. 
  The 
  predominant 
  form 
  in 
  Natal 
  and 
  the 
  

   south 
  coast 
  of 
  Cape 
  Colony, 
  cenea, 
  was 
  thus 
  shown 
  to 
  be 
  

   a 
  dominant 
  relatively 
  to 
  hippocoon, 
  while 
  the 
  predominant 
  

   form 
  everywhere 
  else 
  in 
  Africa 
  was 
  the 
  recessive 
  hippocoon 
  

   itself. 
  The 
  facts 
  brouglit 
  forward 
  in 
  l!)14 
  also 
  seemed 
  to 
  

   prove 
  that 
  hippocooib 
  was 
  recessive 
  to 
  trophondus, 
  planenioides, 
  

   a 
  leighi-Wke 
  $ 
  at 
  Chirinda, 
  and 
  diouysus, 
  inasmuch 
  as 
  all 
  

   these 
  had 
  given 
  a 
  mixture, 
  often 
  approxinuitely 
  half 
  and 
  

   half, 
  of 
  their 
  own 
  form 
  with 
  hipjmcooK., 
  the 
  male 
  parent 
  

   having 
  presumably 
  carried 
  the 
  tendencies 
  of 
  the 
  latter. 
  The 
  

   Mendelian 
  relationship 
  of 
  these 
  forms 
  to 
  each 
  other 
  and 
  to 
  

   cenea 
  is 
  still 
  uncertain. 
  

  

  African 
  Papilios 
  of 
  the 
  nireus, 
  Cram., 
  group 
  attacked 
  

   BY 
  BIRDS. 
  — 
  Prof. 
  Poulton 
  said 
  that 
  he 
  had 
  received 
  from 
  

   Mr. 
  C. 
  N. 
  Barker 
  of 
  the 
  Durban 
  Museum 
  the 
  following 
  

   observation 
  contained 
  in 
  a 
  letter, 
  written 
  to 
  him 
  from 
  the 
  

   Durban 
  Zoological 
  Gardens 
  on 
  April 
  9, 
  1919, 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Harold 
  

   Millar 
  :— 
  

  

  " 
  You 
  will 
  be 
  interested 
  to 
  learn 
  that 
  recently 
  by 
  my 
  office 
  

   here 
  a 
  sparrowhawk 
  caught, 
  on 
  wing, 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  large 
  blue- 
  

   banded 
  Papihos 
  and 
  ate 
  it. 
  Have 
  never 
  suspected 
  they 
  

   would 
  feed 
  on 
  butterflies." 
  

  

  The 
  butterfly 
  must 
  have 
  been, 
  as 
  Mr. 
  Barker 
  states, 
  Papilio 
  

   lyaeus, 
  Dbl. 
  It 
  was 
  a 
  curious 
  coincidence, 
  in 
  view 
  of 
  Mr. 
  

   Barker's 
  comment 
  — 
  " 
  Such 
  occasional 
  incidents 
  are 
  very 
  

   interesting, 
  but 
  do 
  not 
  influence 
  my 
  contention 
  that 
  the 
  

   persecution 
  is 
  not 
  sufficient 
  to 
  justify 
  the 
  results 
  claimed 
  for 
  

   it 
  " 
  — 
  that 
  the 
  first 
  record 
  of 
  an 
  attack 
  on 
  this 
  Papilio 
  to 
  

   reach 
  this 
  country 
  should 
  have 
  been 
  at 
  once 
  followed 
  by 
  

  

  proc. 
  ent. 
  soc. 
  lond., 
  hi, 
  IV. 
  1919. 
  c 
  

  

  