2 io DELAGOA BAY. 



variety of markings and tintings on the fore- 

 wings, but with no variation of the brown hind- 

 wings, with three white spots on the outer edge, 

 is here in such numbers that on some days they 

 rise in a cloud round me as I go through the 

 wood, quickly settling down again among the 

 dead leaves, making quite a whirring sound as 

 they rise, and so bewildering in their hundreds 

 that it is quite impossible to discover a rare one 

 amongst them. Notwithstanding this, at present 

 I have only found one of their brown cater- 

 pillars closely as I am always searching and 

 that one I took hold of by accident, and then 

 felt that it was soft. A bluish variety is more 

 readily discovered, but even these are easily 

 passed over. 



I found one very large stick caterpillar, with 

 a dull eye near the head, feeding on an acacia. 

 He had a very strongly marked temper, and not 

 only flung himself off the branch when touched, 

 wriggling about for some time afterwards like 

 the detached end of a lizard's tail or a severed 

 worm, but sometimes gave himself these airs 



