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get any collecting (and, indeed, owing to the rains there was 

 little opportunity) till we reached the German post of Kigale 

 (which you may have seen noted in the papers) at end of May. 



" We left Kigale June 6th (I refer, of course, only to our 

 ambulance), and soon got out of the difficult hilly and riverine 

 country — catching butterflies as I went along. On the 6th 

 I got the first specimen of a beautiful Precis new to me [P. 

 artaxia, Hew.] f.-w. dark blue-black with large steely blue 

 subapical marks, h.-w. brownish with eye spots. I have since 

 got two more specimens, but have never found it abundant. 



" For a day or two we went through very dull country — 

 low, flat ridges much cultivated — but on the 12th came to a 

 striking outcrop of granite and quartz. In one place where we 

 camped the quartz blocks lay about so thickly that they were 

 dazzlingly white in the sun. This was the edge of a stretch 

 of very barren, stony country, after which we found ourselves 

 on some hills overlooking the broad valley of a large river * 

 (whose name, I suppose, I mustn't mention, but I have said it 

 often to you before !) — a glorious view of papyrus with a broad 

 open channel meandering through, and hills on each side 

 covered with ripe, dry grass and clumps of bushes and small 

 trees, which I found magnificent collecting ground and made 

 the most of, as we stayed several days. 



" As regards Papilios, <$ dardanus abounded, so I anxiously 

 looked for 9, and the only ones I saw were two planemoides ! 

 Remarkable, as it was most un-Planema country [see p. cxxvi], 

 and there were only one or two Acraeines ! Amauris was 

 represented only by one or two echeria (or albimaeulata) and 

 T. petiverana; so there were no models — save D. chrysippus. 

 The locality was 30° 55' E. and 2° 5' S., on the west side of the 

 river. Has planemoides been taken as far south as that before ? 



" Of Nymphalines, the main thing I noted was the abundance 

 of forms of Precis, several species new to me (but possibly only 

 wet and dry forms of one species). I collected what I could 

 on the dates I was there (June 13-18) to show how they all 

 flew together, and you will be interested to see them. Of 

 Hesperids I got several new to me — of particular interest one 

 that was found among the high grass with underside much 

 * Kagera River.— E. B. P. 



