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Dr. K. Jordan, the eminent entomologist, wrote to me, 

 October 1898, about my collections which are deposited at 

 Tring, as follows : — 



" Your collections are of great scientific interest for two 

 reasons. Firstly, the number of species which are new, or of 

 which only a few specimens are known to exist in other collec- 

 tions, is remarkably large. Your list of novelties will certainly 

 be trebled when the whole of the material you have collected 

 has been worked out. Unfortunately there was too little time 

 at our disposal to supply you with a complete list, as you 

 suggested, of the whole of your collection. Such new forms as 

 have been described by Mr. Rothschild, Mr. Grose Smith, and 

 Mr. Warren, were limited to certain families of the lepidoptera ; 

 but your other specimens will be carefully examined and made 

 known to science in due time. Where you have collected, the 

 countries have been comparatively little explored as regards 

 butterflies and moths ; and lepidopterists must be gratified at 

 your important contributions to our knowledge of the lepidoptera 

 of those regions. 



'* Uganda and the Nandi country have yielded the greater 

 proportion of your novelties and rare species ; here we have the 

 true East African fauna with a small mingling of the West 

 African, but mostly somewhat modified, species ; whereas, in 

 the more remote Unyoro, the number of West African forms is 

 already very large. Many species which appeared to you very 

 rare, because you found them only in Unyoro, are, as a matter 

 of fact, rather common West Coast and Congo insects. The 

 discrepancy between the fauna of Unyoro and Uganda is, for 

 example, very strikingly illustrated by the Pieridcs, there being 

 in your collection very few species of Teracolus from Unyoro, 

 while there are splendid series of a great number of species of 

 this pretty genus from the countries farther east. 



"The following are some of the choice captures you made, to 

 mention but a few of them : — Both sexes of Kallinia jacksoni, 

 a good series of Melinda mercedonia and Melinda forviosa, in- 

 clusive of their rare females ; a series of Papilio jacksoni and 

 Papilio mackinnoni ; some specimens of Papilio pelodiirus, also 

 Papilio priiiglei {$ and ?); Acrcea poggei ; PseudacrcBa kiinowi ; 

 Charaxes pithodorus ^ &c., &c. 



"A most interesting and noteworthy specimen is undoubtedly 

 the female of Papilio rex, which you captured in the spring of 



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