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broken up into a network of dark brown and yellow [Cyclopides 

 willemi, Wallengr.]. I got a lot of beautiful specimens. 



" The only Lijcaenid here of interest was a curious sluggish 

 Liptenine [Telipna reticulata, Butl., <S]. I found it sitting on 

 a dry grass stem, and it seemed strictly analogous to the 

 above-mentioned skipper.* I only found the one specimen. 

 I wonder if it's new ? On June 19th we had a day at another 

 nice collecting ground along the river, and I got some more 

 things I had not got before : A large Lycaenid, with some cop- 

 pery tints [Deudorix diodes, Hew., ^]. A curious Hesperid 

 [Abantis zambesiaca, Westw.], which I saw sitting on a flower 

 with wings widespread and took for a moment to be a Syntomid ; 

 its blue-black wings and large semitransparent whitish spots, 

 with coloured body certainly suggested that it was apo- 

 sematic (but whether Syn- or Pseud- I know not). A large 

 Asilid abounded in the grass, and I caught six with prey as 

 follows : Honey-bee, 2 ; small bee ; small (fossorial ?) Hymeno- 

 pteron ; a large black froghopper with conspicuous white 

 blotches, which one might regard as aposematic. These five 

 thus had protected insects as prey (or four, at any rate) — the 

 sixth had a Satyrine, — Yphthima. In some cases the Asilid 

 escaped, but I got the prey. 



" After a day or two more we reached a point (30° 55' E., 

 2° 25' S.) where two big rivers became confluent, and the 

 scenery was strikingly interesting from a geographical point 

 of view. Above and below the confluence, the rivers flow 

 through broad valleys between ridges on each side, covered 

 with dried-up grass and scattered bush (for the dry season 

 seems very marked here). The valley is almost filled with 

 papyrus, leaving a channel meandering in the middle, through 

 which flow the rivers — about the breadth of the Cher in Meso- 

 potamia at Oxford, but with much greater flow. They join 

 at right angles, and shortly afterwards the river flows over 

 some falls and cascades and then through a narrow gap with 

 300-feet-high cliffs on each side. This was a particularly 

 interesting feature geographically, for the river flowed straight 



* Dr. G. A. K. Marshall has noted the resemblance at rest, and the 

 similar resting habits of this Hesperid, and an allied Telipna, — 

 T. nyassae, at Salisbury, Mashonaland. Trans. Ent. Soc., 1902, 

 p. 4 l J6.— E. B. P. 



