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Another specimen was taken and dropped two or three times, and 

 then left, still alive. 



The Tupaia shortly vomited freely, and then ate a Papilio eurypylus 

 I had just put in. I saw it vomit when being brought from the Bazaar 

 in a " gharry " however, probably from fear. 



Soon after I gave it a Papilio demoleus, which it ate greedily. I 

 gave disabled specimens of Danais genutia and a non-warniugly- 

 coloured species, previously offered to Lizards ( Experiments with a Lizard, 

 under this date, loc, cit., line 32) to the Tupaia, which ate the latter 

 and smelt and left the D. genutia, which I used again for a Lizard 

 (loc. cit. line 36). The Polytela larva which it had tried, and which 

 had been crawling about the cage, was now not to be seen. 



July 25th. In the evening I gave the Tupaia another Polytela 

 gloriosse larva, which it ate with less signs of dislike. It was seem- 

 ingly hungry, and it did not vomit afterwards, but then I did not watch 

 for this. 



July 26th. I enticed the Tupaia, which was hungry, into its small 

 cage with a living Gatopsilia, which it ate. 



I then put in two dead Gatopsilias, and & Danais genutia andD. limniace 

 alive. One Gatopsilia was soon eaten, and the animal then smelt atten- 

 tively at the D. limniace, but did not touch it. It then found and seized 

 the other Gatopsilia, but only ate the head, if anything. 



I then put in a living Euploea, which the Tupaia smelt at and left. 



Shortly afterwards, I found this and the two Danais still unhurt, 

 while the Gatopsilia left before had apparently been eaten, and another, 

 put in alive, was also devoured. 



About an hour afterwards the two Danais and the Euploea were still 

 unhurt, though the Tupaia had had no food, and readily ate a cockroach. 



After this I sent the animal to the Zoological Gardens at Alipore, 

 where it was placed in a netted cage with another. Here I made a 

 few more experiments with it a few days later. 



August 3rd. I offered to the Tupaia (there was food, hard-boiled 

 egg, in the cage) a Papilio demoleus, which it took and partly ate. 



Then I put in a non- mimetic Papilio polites, which it ate all but 

 the fore- wings and a piece of the hind-wings ; it then ate all the rest 

 of the P. demoleus except the fore-wings. 



P. aristolochide was then taken, killed, and left. Then the head 

 was eaten, and the body again left. 



Three specimens of P. demoleus were then readily eaten in succes- 

 sion. 



The body and hind-wings of the P. aristolochide soon disappeared, 

 but I think I saw it under the sleeping-box in the cage, where no doubt 

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