282 MR. C. F. M. SWYNNERTON ON THE 



at any rate not liked better than L. argia 5 , Cyrestis camillus than Ps. lucretia, 

 or T. hrigitta than N. goochi and the Teracolus.^ j 



Exp. 64. — July 7. I fed the roller by hand on grasshoppers &c. until she would 

 eat no more. She then crushed and tossed carelessly aside a Precis cebrene, 

 examined critically and shook her head at a large wasip, Belonogaster chibius (which 

 I killed immediately before offering it), but changing her mind tasted it slightly 

 and dropped it. On my reoftering it, she ran it through her bill from side to side, 

 tasting it well, and dropped it. I reoftered it once more, when it was merely 

 tasted slightly and dropped. ^ 



Ten minutes later, evidently still replete, she at first ignored, but then took, 

 crushed and swallowed Precis cebrene, and crushed slightly and tossed aside the 

 hornet. 



Ten minutes later she refused, then tasted slightly and dropped the hornet, but 

 readily ate a Precis cebrene. 



Twenty minutes later she refused persistently without tasting an Tpthinia, 

 an Acrseoid skipper {Baoris nyassce), and a Lycoid moth, but ate readily Precis 

 cebrene, and after at first dropping it crushed very thoroughly and swallowed the 

 hornet — without sign of dislike. She then crushed slightly and swallowed a 

 Precis clelia, again refused the skipper and the Lycoid moth, then tasting the 

 latter slightly (it had no smell that I could detect) rejected it, ate readily 

 a Pyrameis, but tasted and at once rejected a Neptis saclava, readily accepted 

 and ate a Precis cebrene, but tasted slightly and rejected the Lycoid moth, crushed 

 and dropped, probably accidentally, a Papilio lyceus and on my reofFering it 

 crvished it well and swallowed it without apparent dislike, refused without tasting 

 the Lycoid moth, tasted and promptly rejected Neptis agatha, and crushed and at 

 once swallowed a Hesperia (of usual species) with slight bug-smell. 



[Summary : — 



(a) 1. P. cebrene. 1 j ■ d ? 



2. Bel. duhius, probably but not certainly h ' „ » • 2/ ^ j 



above "3." I ^^^^™- 



3. Yp)thima and the Lycoid moth. 

 (6) L P. cebrene and probably P. lyceus. 



2. Isf. saclava. 

 (c) \. Hesperia sp. (bug-like smell). 



2. N. agatha, which probably not above P. lyceus. 



The roller's treatment of the Belonogaster precluded the idea that the sting may 

 have had anything to do with its placing. 



The Acrseoid skipper was probably refused through its likeness to an Acrcea. 

 Similarly, it is quite probable that the first refusal of the Lycoid moth was not on 

 its own known merits.] 



Exp. 65. — July 9. Rejected with the greatest emphasis a larva of Acrcea serena 

 [State of hunger unfortunately not indicated.] 



