530 F. Finn — Experiments with a Tupaia and a Frog. [No. 2, 



July VWi. I put in the Tupaia's aviary, where there was still 

 meat and fruit left over from yesterday, disabled specimens of Danais 

 genutia and limniace, and Euploea, the last-named being that which 

 I had removed on the preceding night. The animal smelt at, but did 

 not take them, and an hour or so after they were still alive. I took 

 out the Euploea and Danais, using the former again for Lizards 

 (see Experiments with a Lizard, under this date loc. cit.) and returning 

 the two latter later, after the Tupaia had had a fresh allowance 

 of meat. They were both now dead ; the D. limniace had been wounded 

 and the D. genutia had lost two legs, but my notes do not state what 

 had done this. At all events I now took them away finally. 



July 18th. I gave the Tupaia in the morning a Neptis Jcamarupa 

 (uninjured) which it readily seized and ate. Some of the meat given 

 the animal yesterday was still at hand. 



July 20th. Being unwell to-day, I was indebted to Mr. R. D. 

 Oldham, of the Geological Survey, for making some observations. He 

 gave the Tupaia (which was eager for insects, at any rate) a Papilia 

 aristolochise, which the animal attacked and killed, eating its head. 

 However, it was not eager for it, and left it to greedily devour a non- 

 warningly-coloured specimen. 



In the evening, though there was still some meat, Mr. Oldham 

 found the Tupaia had apparently eaten the body of the P. aristolochise; 

 it then greedily ate a non-mimetic specimen of P. polites, and another 

 non-warningly-coloured specimen. 



Two Danais genutia were then hunted by the animal; one was 

 killed, but not eaten, and the other not even killed. 



On the 22nd I found a D. genutia dead and uneaten, but being 

 attacked by ants, in the Tupaia's cage, where there was also some 

 meat and rice. 



July 24ith. I gave the Tupaia a disabled Danais genutia, which it 

 smelt at and pawed, but left unhurt. 



I then put in a disabled Papilio demoleus, which it ate, leaving 

 most of the wings. 



A large Catopsilia was then eaten more eagerly and entire. The 

 animal had some meat left from yesterday. 



The Tupaia then ate two or three other non-warningly-coloured 

 butterflies (one of which had been offered to Calotes (see Experiments 

 with a Lizard, under this date, loc. cit. line 30). 



In the evening I gave the Tupaia (which had now only rice avails 

 able) a larva of Polytela gloriosse. This it did not seem to relish, as 

 I saw it once flung aside and once dropped ; but all, or nearly all, of 

 it was eaten. These larvae are conspicuously coloured red, black and 

 white, feed exposed, and do not appear to be touched by wild birds. 



