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The first of his favourite localities to which Mr. Millar directed 
us was the Old Cemetery at Sydenham. About three miles to the 
north of Durban, it lies on the north (sunny) side of a hill sloping 
very gradually towards the Umgeni Kiver, and may be some 400 ft. 
above sea-level. The Cemetery itself is small, neglected and over¬ 
grown with coarse grass and herbage, which doubtless nourishes 
many larvae, while there are enough flowers to attract butterflies. 
The grassy lanes on either side afford excellent collecting ground, 
and, although most of the land around is cultivated, there is some 
scrub to the south. 
Here we found, beside our familiar friend Danaida chrysippus, 
our first specimens of Amauris albimaculata} Butl., both males. 
Single specimens of the beautiful dark red Acraea petraea , Boisd., 
and of A. natalica, Boisd., a male, were taken. The fore-wings of the 
last-named are, when the insect is fresh, of a fine rose-crimson, the 
hind part of the abdomen (in the male) being banded above with 
pale rose-pink and white, but white beneath. Males of A. terpsichore 
were fairly common, especially among dead grass. A. encedon, Linn., 
of which two examples were taken, was so successful in its mimicry 
of B. chrysippus as at first to make the writer believe it to be that 
species. 
In the Cemetery a few males of Hypolimnas misippus, Linn., 
were sailing around, flying high and seldom flapping their wings, 
but no females were observed. In an open space within the 
enclosure, as well as in a cleared mealy-field adjoining, the “ blue¬ 
eyed ” Precis clelia was locally common, settling on the bare earth 
and on the grave-stones; with them were a couple of P. cebrene ) but 
that species was commoner in the dry bed of a spruit half a mile to 
the north; some of the specimens were very small. Three examples 
of P. natalica , Feld., were taken; P. sesamus was not uncommon. 
Only two Precis ( Catacroptera ) cloantha, Cram., were seen, one of 
them in the dry spruit. Eurytela Jiiarbas was very common about 
hedgerows. Single specimens of Pyrameis cardui and Salamis 
anacardii turned up. Several male specimens of Byblia goetzius 
were taken, but it was hardly common. To effect the capture of 
Char axes varanes, Cram., required considerable negotiations, as its 
flight is both high and strong, but it has a habit of settling at the 
end of a prominent twig, and is then fairly easily detected in spite 
of the resemblance of its under-surface to a leaf. 
Of Mycalesis safitza , two females were taken, one near the 
1 For the specific distinctness of this form from A. echeria, Stoll, see Rothschild 
and Jordan, Novit. Zool.> x. 1903, p. 504. 
