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monia and another was disabled with paralysis in 

 the hip joint. 



However, I got to work (location Biagi, about 

 5000 feet high, at the head of the Mambare River : 

 year 1906). I had barely established my camp when 

 I encountered the first female of the Ornithoptera 

 alexandrae. It was not until a year or two after- 

 wards that I obtained a male specimen. I also got 

 two or three specimens of the female Troides chimcera, 

 but could not get a male although I saw them often. 

 One I shot with a shot-gun, but I lost the body because 

 of the wild nature of the country. But on the whole 

 the insects proved so much like the Owgarra ones, 

 that I was sorry I had ventured up so high, or so far. 

 I captured nine or ten of the Delias, similar to the 

 Owgarra ones, with little local differences. Most of 

 the Owgarra day-flying, brightly coloured moths I 

 found at Biagi also, with few new ones. But every- 

 thing seemed to run much darker in colour at Biagi 

 than at Owgarra. I encountered many species (one 

 white with black border and others brown and smaller) 

 of a sort of Satyrid with rounded short tails, and one 

 specimen of the small white Nymphalid, with a deep 

 black border. 1 I also got a good series of a moth, 

 yellow in colour, with red irregular lines running all 

 about on the fore-wing. It is not a high altitude 

 insect. All the Owgarra Delias were found at Biagi 

 excepting five species. I noticed that the females took 

 1 The Nymphalid is a form of Ilelcijra chionippe, Fold. (1860). 



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