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Later. Hungry, tasted and rejected a large driver-ant {Dorylus sp.), and 

 regarded with suspicion and rejected the larva of Gonimbrasia ; the latter was 

 barely tasted, simply ta,ken and tossed away. She then refused to touch the black 

 lai'va, refused, then tasted and rejected a Mylabris oculata, greedily ate a 

 B. mesentina, several times took, crushed slightly, and threw away the large larva, 

 tasted very thoroughly before rejecting it an A. caldarena both with wings and 

 without, being evidently very nearly hungry enough to eat it, greedily ate a 

 M. yulei, refused to taste a wingless I), chrysippus^ again took the large larva 

 (which had meantime been mauled by the shrike), tasted the wounded portion and 

 rejected it, refusing to take it again, crushed and rejected the second ant 

 {Polyrhach'is sp.), refused to taste a Zonocerus elegans, then tasted and rejected 

 a black fly (No. 19) and an earwig, also beetle (No. 154) common on turnips, but 

 again eagerly ate a B. mesentina. 



Later I fed her on grasshoppers till she positively refused to eat any more (she 

 had eaten two or three abdomens after refusing the last complete grasshopper), 

 crushed and rejected a wingless JI. misippus $ , readily ate a P. angolanus with 

 wings, accepted doubtfully, crushed well and again rejected an H. misippus 5 with 

 all its wings, accepted doubtfully but having crushed it readily swallowed a 

 Teracolus eris d" , O f •, with wings, tasted and rejected a B. severina with wings, 

 but greedily ate a second Teracolus eris (0 S) also with wings, tasted with 

 disinclination and rejected a P. angolanus both with wings and without, and twice 

 a wingless P. lycetos. 



Five minutes later she again accepted a, ^ II. misipjnis with wings, crushed it 

 veuy thoroughly and carefully, and swallowed it wings and all, refused to taste a 

 P. angolanus with wings or without, crushed and rejected the wingless P. lyaius, 

 refused a second II. misippus with wings, but on my continuing to offer it crushed 

 it slightly and threw it away, doing the same again when I had removed all wings 

 but one, then refused to accept a Pr. artaxia or a C. brutus, each without wings, 

 and on my continuing to hold them to it knocked each out of the forceps with the 

 side of her bill. I reoffered the Charaxes, and she this time actually took it 

 irritably in her bill, but finding it to be quite good crushed it well and swallowed 

 it, and then crushed and swallowed the P. artaxia too. She then once more obsti- 

 nately refused the S. misippus and finally knocked it out of the forceps, but 

 readily — almost eagerly — accepted a P. sesamus f . with all its wings, crushed it 

 and swallowed it, then refused to taste a CJlorella with one wing. 

 [07rler : — 



(a) (b) 



1. Bel. mesentina, 1. Charaxes brutus, \ 



Myl. yulei. Precis artaxia. Precis sesa- 



Danaida chrysippus, 2. A. caldarena (on mun- 2. Pap.angolanus,Te- \ mus Q i. 

 Polyrhachis sp. ner), large larva. racolus ei'is Q d • J 



Zonocerus elegans. \ 3. Dorylus, 3. Grasshoppers, ^ 



Fly 19, Ant 31, Gonimbrasia larva., H. misipjms, \Pcm Uicbus 



Beetle 154, Earwig. V black larva. Bel. severina. 



