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being played with for a few seconds — and a Charaxes vologeses was simply played 

 with and dropped, as were also a Precis artaxia and Precis cebrene. 



Five minutes later, still apparently anything but hungry, she listlessly crushed 

 and dropped Precis artaxia and Precis antilope, seemed to wake up on being offered 

 a Melanitis leda, crushed and swallowed it, and after it crushed well and swallowed 

 with apparent relish the Precis artaxia reoffered. Atella phalantha and Precis 

 antilope were refused without tasting, a Precis cehrene accepted and eaten, a 

 Eurytela Marhas disguised with a Pyrameis wing well tasted and rejected, and an 

 actual Pyrameis played with for some seconds and finally swallowed. The bird 

 then, reappetized, ate with apparent liking, after crushing each, Precis cebre^ie, 

 Hamanumida dcedalus, and Melanitis leda, rejected, after tasting it, Eurytela 

 dryope, but readily ate Precis ceryne and Precis antilope. She then took with 

 disinclination, crushed slightly, and dropped Atella phalantha and Eurytela 

 dryope ; however, she was probably in any case replete, or nearly so, for she 

 now persistently ignored Precis cehrene, crushed slightly and dropped Precis 

 natalensis f., and once more refused without tasting Precis cehrene. 



Ten minutes later she again persistently ignored Precis natalensis f. and 

 Precis cehrene. 



Five minutes later she refused a Neptis saclava, tasted and readily ate the Precis 

 natalensis f., then refused without tasting, but eventually accepted and ate, 

 a Precis cehrene, and after it, with an effort (or with disinclination ?), a Leuceronia 

 thalassina 5 and a Papilio dardamis 5 f. hippocoon. She now refused without 

 tasting an Atella phalantha, crushed and readily ate a Precis clelia, persistently 

 refused to touch a Neptis saclava, crushed and this time ate an Atella phalantha, 

 and then persistently ignored Hamanumida dmdalus and a Rhopalocampta liheon. 



Five minutes later she crushed and ate with the greatest readiness a Gatacroptera 

 cloantha, refused without tasting Neptis saclava, the previously offered Byhlia and 

 Pajnlio angolanus, but most readily accepted a second Catacroptera cloantha. She 

 was quite disinclined to eat and after playing with it (tossing it up, &c.) for a few 

 seconds, dropped it, but on my at once reoffering the butterfly again accepted and 

 this time crushed and swallowed it with apparent relish. She then refused without 

 tasting Precis ceryne, Rhopalocampta liheon, a Gegenes, and a dark skipper, also a 

 Pyrameis cardui and a Precis cebrene. 



Five minutes later she crushed and dropped Precis natalensis 0, readily ate 

 Hamanumida dcedalus and the brown Rhopalocampta, refused obstinately without 

 tasting the Byhlia, tasted and emphatically rejected Papilio amgolanus, crushed and 

 readily ate Charaxes vologeses, refused without tasting Precis natalensis f., 

 and ate with relish Pyrameis cardui and Precis ceryne. I now offered, each with 

 the underside of the wing up and therefore not altogether dissimilar, Pi-ecis clelia 

 and Eu^rytela dryope. The first was crashed and readilv eaten, the second accepted 

 equally readily, crushed and thrown away. A Rhopalocampta liheon (no smell) 

 was readily eaten, as were also a blackish skipper, a Gegenes, and a Hamanumida 

 dcedahbs. Precis natalensis f . was crushed and tossed aside. 



Three minutes later Melanitis leda and a Leuceronia thalassina 5 were eaten 

 readily, but a Sarangesa djcelvelce with a slight lemonade smell was tasted and at 

 once rejected. On being reoffered it was refused persistently, though a i/e?a9iif?s 



