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Fifteen minutes later she readily accepted and ate Hamanumida dcedalus, 

 obviously recoo-nizing it, persistently refused a c? Leuceronia thalassma, and then 

 refused but suddenly changing her mind, accepted and readily ate a Precis cehrene. 

 She now refused without tasting Pseudacrcea trimeni, tasted and rejected Tagiades 

 ■flesus and refused with many shakes of the head JVeptis saclara and a Myccdesis 

 campina, as also with less demonstration Leuceronia thalassina S , Papilio lyceus $ , 

 and Pseudacrcea trimeni $ . 



[Summary : — 



1. P. cardui {Macroglossa trochilus less certainly here). 



2. P. cehrene, 1 rp^gi^^es flesus. 



3. L. thalassina S • J 



4. N. saclava and M. campina refused with more demonstration 



than L. thalassina S , P. ly<xus $ , and Pseudacrcea trimeni $ , 

 but it would be unsafe to rely too much on this.] 



Exp. 52.- Jime 27. To place Pseudacrcea trimeni. Had retired to her perch 



after a bio- feed of various grasshoppers, termites, &c. ; replete. She refused, then 

 leant forward, tasted and rejected in turn Neptis saclava and JVeptis agatha, refused 

 absolutely without tasting Phrissura isokani, Mycalesis camjnna, and Henotesia 

 perspicua, but fairly readily accepted and ate a Pyrameis. She now crushed well 

 and threw away a Leuceronia thalassina S and again ate a Pyrameis, crushed 

 well and tossed away a Papilio lyceus $ , and once more, though with disinclination, 

 ate a Pyrameis. She then twice, with a short interval between, refused with 

 shakes of the head yesterday's Pseudacrcea trimeni $ , which was still alive ; 

 refused but, on tasting, changed her mind and with a surprising show of relish, 

 considerino- her treatment of the other pleasanter species, ate two Precis 

 natalensis © f.. the second without the slightest hesitation in acceptance. She 

 now refused a Pyrameis without tasting, crushed and ate with an air of dis- 

 inclination a Precis cehrene, and then readily ate a Precis natalensis f. The 

 next Precis cehrene was refused persistently witho.ut tasting. 



Fifteen minutes later she refused without tasting Papilio lycxus, Leuceronia 

 thalassina, and Pseudacrcea trimeni, readily ate a Pyrameis and refused without 

 tasting JVeptis saclava. 



[Summary: — (1) Grades: — 



1. P. cehrene. 



2. P. cardui and probably P. natalensis © f. (I draw no 



inference, however, from its last acceptance as this imme- 

 diately succeeded that of a P. cehrene). 



3. L. thalassina S , P. lyceus $ , Ps. trimeni, JV. saclava, JV. agatha, 



P. isokani, M. campina, and, if not through mistake 

 (as it probably was), H. perpicua. 



(2) Note at the time : '* The Leuceronia was practically killed by its tasting, the 

 Papilio lyceus not, but it was disabled and would certainly not recover from its 

 injuries."] 



