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Again numerous low-grade Lepidoptera (and one low-grade beetle) were refused 

 without tasting, an indication of previous experience in the wild state. They 

 were D. chrysippus, A. alhimaculata, A. caldarena, T. hrigiita, the Terias-\\ke 

 Teracolus, L. lemnos, K. melanocraspis, and Aulacophora vimola, and the refusal of 

 the Teracolus was a probable indication of the value of mimicy relatively even to a 

 just-captured bird. 



Exp. 217. — March 9. Refused emphatically and persistently A. caldarena, a dull 

 5 with outspread wings, and Terias senegalensis, tried and rejected a Deudorlx, 

 refused emphatically without tasting A. alhimaculata, but readily accepted and ate 

 E. hiarbas, most persistently refused without tasting a blue-black beetle- larva 

 (Catamerus), a Lycoid moth, and again the Terias, crushed and readily ate 

 B. mesentina, persistently refused without tasting the Terias and a D. chrysipptis, 

 showed some slight inclination to accept a $ HypoVmmas misipjms (no bar) but did 

 not do so, persistently refused without tasting Azanus moriqua and Castalius 

 callce, inspected closely and ate Catochrysoj)s dolorosa, persistently refused without 

 tasting Castalius syharis, inspected and readily accepted and ate Atella phalantha, 

 refused without tasting then tried and rejected a rather dry Phyccenura, both 

 surfaces shown, ti-ied and rejected the Deudorix-Mke Lycoinesthes, readily accepted 

 and ate Antanartia schceneia and a yellow 5 Catopsilia florella, most persistently 

 refused without tasting the T'erms, A. lohengula, and a small Lycid (Brachycerus), 

 ate an Yp>thima, most persistently refused without tasting a large weevil, but at 

 last pressed slightly and desisted, refused similarly without tasting an Ichneumon, 

 refused without tasting and then with disinclination tried and rejected B. mesentina 

 and Atella, persistently refused without tasting Terias, leadily accepted and ate 

 N. agatha, Ypthima impiora, Eurytela hiarbas, and a Hceinatopota (?), refused without 

 tasting then tried and rejected a house-fly, readily accepted and ate E. hiarbas, re-- 

 fused without tasting then tried and rejected a very large Tryxalis, decidedly refused 

 without tasting Tryxalis turrita, but readily ate a grasshopper 1 9, most persistently 

 refused without tasting the Belenois and the Atella and once more the large 

 Tryxalis, readily accepted and ate various grasshoppers including Catantops 

 sulphureus and now, after at first refusing it, a T. turrita, persistently refused 

 without tasting it the large Tryxalis, but readily accepted and ate grasshopper 

 No. 1053. 



In the afternoon, hungry, he most persistently refused without tasting a Terias, 



but readily accepted and ate a B. mesentina and an A . phalantha. 



[Order : — 



/ 1. iV". a^a^Aa, ^. AmrJas, grasshoppers 19 and 1053, and 



0. dolorosa, Ypthima, i t^ 7 ■ tt ^ j t /y j ^ 



. -^ perharps iptmma sip., rtcsmatojjota STp.jSina Caianto2)s 



A. schceneia, &,prohi\.h\Y i , 7 



n -a V srdphureus. 



•^ ' "^ ' ^2. A. phalantha and B. inesentina. 



Lyccenesthes sp., Azanus ' 



moriqua, Castalius calice ^ rn ? -r ^7 <7z,- j^ino 



' , 6. T. senegale^isi.s, Lyccenesthes sp., A. albimaculata, ami 2 



and sybaris, D. chry- . ,, ,, ,..,, ,.„ 



„ A. caldarena, blue-black lenebrionid larva, and, it 



sippus, Ihysecenura, A. < , .^ ., 1 • 1 • ti i 1.1 



■\^ "^ n T • 1 known on its own merits, which is unlikely, the 



lobenqula, small Lycid, , ., ,, 



^ I Lycoid moth, 



lai'ge Brachycerus and 



Ichneumon. 



