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took it some time to get it into good head-first position, with the result that it 



must have tasted it very thoroughly) a Pajnlio lyceus $ . All these tastings were 



thorough and satisfactory. 



Five minutes later she crushed well and ate Leuceronia argia § , refused without 



tasting, then tasted slightly and rejected Eurytela dryope, but crushed and readily 



ate a Henotesia perspicua. She then once more refused but ended by slightly 



tasting and rejecting Eurytela dryoj^e, but on my reoifering it ate not only it bvit 



Neptis agatha. It then refused for a time an Ypthima, but on my continuing to 



hold it to her crushed and swallowed it. 



[Summary: — 



{a) 1. M. campina, small grasshoppers. 



2. M. agathina and Terias (and small grasshoppers above 



Acridium lineatwm). 



(b) 1, P. lyceus 9 . 1 „ . 



^ ' \ JLL • pe,rsp%c%i,a, 



2. L. argia 5 J 



3. E. dry ope ^ N. saclava, Acridmm Uneatum, and Terias.^ 



Exp. 70. — August 8. Refused persistently without tasting Mylothris agathina $ 

 and a Terias. She then ate several grasshoppers of various species, but finally, 

 through sheer repletion apparently, refined to touch any more. She now refused 

 and then carelessly crushed and tossed aside a Precis cebrene and an Antanartia 

 schoeneia. 



Four minutes later she once more took Precis cebrene in the tip of her bill after 

 at first refusing it and tossed it away. 



Fifteen minutes later she readily ate a Precis cebrene, a Papilio lyceus, and a 

 medium-sized grasshopper, but refused without tasting the next grasshopper 

 (usually a favourite), also Gharaxes hrutus, and refused, then crushed and tossed 

 aside, but on my offering for the third time once more crushed and this time 

 swallowed a $ Papilio lyceus. I now offered her several species of grasshoppers, 

 including most of her favourites, and she refused to touch any of them, then simply 

 played with Charaxes brutus and Precis cebrene, tossing them into the air and 

 catching them, and finally allowing each to fall. Papilio lyceus was tasted and 

 rejected, and an Anfanarticc was taken, crushed slightly, and listlessly tossed away 

 into the air. She then took a Euralia mima and was crushing it in the same 

 careless fashion when, evidently specially attracted by it, she suddenly set to work 

 more energetically, worked it round into a good head-first position, crushing it well 

 the while, and swallowing it hindwing and all, though the latter was a distinct 

 hindrance to the butterfly's passage. (IST.B. The Charaxes brutus had been 

 wingless.) She now obstinately refused to touch Papilio lyceus, Precis cebrene, 

 Charaxes brutus, Pyrameis cardui, Antanarticc schoeneia, or any of the series of 

 grasshoppers which I had ofi"ered previously. 



Ten minutes later, still evidently feeling replete, she refused, then just took and 

 tossed away, an Antanartia schoeneici and a Precis cebrene, and refused without 

 tasting Chctraxes brutus and the grasshoppers. 



[Summary : — (1) Note at the time : " In view of her inability (through repletion) 

 to eat either the Charaxes, the Junonia, or her favourite grasshoppers, it came as 



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