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5 Papilio lyceus. She now readily ate two Charaxes brutus natalensis, tried 

 unhesitatingly and rejected Neptis agatha, refused persistently without tasting 

 Phrissura isokani, but tried and this time ate a second Neptis agatha, following it 

 up by a Henotesia and a Leuceronia thcdassina. 



She ate readily a Charaxes brutus natalensis and a Charaxes candiope^ tasted and 

 very promptly rejected Neptis ayatha, refused to touch Nep>tis goochi, tasted and 

 rejected Phrissura isokani^ Leuceronia thalasslna, and Neptis goochi, but ate, after 

 tasting it, Atella, phalantha. She now tasted and rejected a second Leuceronia 

 thalassina 6 , tasted and ate a Byblia, tasted and at once rejected a Mycalesis 

 campina, refusing it persistently without tasting on its being reoffered, crushed 

 and readily ate Eurytela dryope and Rhopalocampta pisistratus (with a slight bug- 

 like smell). 



She now readily ate two Charaxes brutus natalensis, one Charaxes neanthes, one 

 Sarangesa, one Papilio lyceus, one Pyrameis cardui, one Precis cebrene, and two 

 Charaxes candiope, the second being swallowed with a little difficulty, due, I thought, 

 to repletion. Charaxes neanthes was readily eaten, Sarangesa, Atella phalantha, 

 aud Em-ytela dryope refused without tasting, Precis cebrene accepted, crushed, and 

 swallowed, the Sarangesa, Atella, a,nd LJurytela dryope once more refused, a Pyrameis 

 cardui accepted, crushed, and eaten, the Sarangesa, Atella, and Lurytela refused 

 without tasting for the third time, as also a Lampides bcetica, but a Phopalocarnpta 

 libeon was tasted and readily eaten, another skipper (probably a Gegenes) refused 

 without tasting, a Melanitis leda, offered both with wings and without, crushed 

 each time and tossed away, a Precis cebrene refused for a moment, then taken, 

 tasted, and readily swallowed, as was also a Pyrameis : and a Precis clelia and a 

 Precis cebrene refused without tasting. The bird now accepted Charaxes brutus, 

 played with it for a while, continually tossing it up into the air and catching it 

 again, and finally tossed it aside, apparentl}^ replete. 



[Summary : — 



(1) After the refusal of M. yulei the following were eaten : 1 Henotesia persjncua, 

 2 C. neanthes, 6 C. brutits, 4 C. candiope, 1 N. goochi, 1 N. agatha, 1 A . pihalantha, 



1 Byblia sp., 1 E. dryope, 3 P. cardui, 3 P. cebrene, 1 P. isokani, 1 L. thalassina, 



2 P. lyceus, 1 Rhopalocampta (sp. ?), 1 K. pisistratus, 1 R. libeon, 1 Sarangesa, 



(2) After the refusal of T . senegalensis were eaten : all the above except 1 C. brutus, 

 1 C. candiope, the N. goochi, and the Rhopalocampta sp. — these not offered. 



(3) After N. agatha (finally), N. goochi, P. isokani, and L. thcdassina were refused, 

 the bird ate 2 C. neanthes, 2 C. brutus, 2 C. candio2)e, 1 A. p>hcdantha, 1 Byblia sp., 

 1 E. dryope, 3 P. cardui, 3 P. cebrene, 1 P. lyceus, 1 R. pisistratus, 1 R. libeon, 



1 Sarangesa, 



(4) After the refusal of the Myccdesis campina there were eaten the species just 

 enumerated in (3), excepting the Atella and Byblia — but the Mycalesis was appa- 

 rently not higher than the latter. 



(5) After the refusal of the Sarangesa, Atella, and E. dryope the bird ate 



2 P. cardui, 2 P. cebrene, 1 R. libeon. 



(6) After the refusal of L. bcetica, 1 P. cebrene, 1 P. cardui, and 1 R. libeon were 

 eaten. 



