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species I have seen. I have never been so 

 fortunate as to find the larvae of Charaxes, and- 

 only one pupa belonging to C. Brutus, which 

 was bright green and like a little suspended 

 cone with a lid. 



My Chobi boy could not at all understand at 

 first why I was continually telling him to bring 

 me all the caterpillars (ouhouquas, he called 

 them) he could find, and when I explained to 

 him that in time, after a rest without eating, 

 a fact which he was slow to realise, they turned 

 into the butterflies or moths we daily went to 

 hunt for, his astonishment was exceedingly great, 

 and I was afterwards very much amused to find 

 that he was relating this fact to other Kafirs 

 with an air of the most superior wisdom. 



He came to me quite a raw lad, but very 

 soon learned to catch and even pin up the 

 insects in a very clever manner ; and I often 

 have envied him his most wonderful sight, he 

 being able to discover a moth on a tree stem, 

 exactly the colour of the bark, at a distance of 

 thirty feet ; and I feel sure he has often had 



