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feeble insect, with slow bight, and it again succeeded in passing itself 
off momentarily as clnrysippns. The yellow juice expressed from 
A . natalica proved to be slightly acrid. A single male Planema 
aganice , Hew., completed the group. 
Byhlia goetzius flew over the grass like a “ Pearl-bordered ” ; one 
settled on a red path, another on dead grass, both with wings erect, 
both inconspicuous; we took a male and four females, one of the 
latter was “ quite dry.” Two Neptis agatha were taken flying 
slowly. Precis elgiva , a retiring insect, was found in the track 
through the wood, of four specimens one was much battered; of P. 
clelia several were seen; of P. natalica two, of the dry-season form, 
one worn; of P. sesamus one settled closely appressed to the ground; 
also at the edge of the banana garden, on very red soil a Precis was 
seen three times quite clearly, but unfortunately missed; this was 
either P. octavia , Cram, (the wet-season form of sesamus ), or some¬ 
thing uncommonly like it; it nearly matched the red soil in colour, 
but was somewhat more orange in tint. Of Salamis anacardii, one 
of each sex was obtained ; of Atella phalantha , a single example ; of 
Gharaxes varanes , usually a high flier, a female was luckily netted 
off a shrub. Mycalesis safitza was common ; four males and nine 
females were taken. 
No specimens of Belenois severina appear to have been brought 
back from Congella, but it was certainly common there; of B. gidica 
we took three of each sex, one had the hind-wings chipped symmetri¬ 
cally, apparently by a bird ; of two specimens taken in cop. the male 
was “ dry,” the female “ very dry.” Of B. thysa we took six males, but 
we have no record of its model Mylothris agathina from that locality. 
Both these butterflies have strong scents, which are quite distinct. 
Of Glutophrissa saba and Nychitona alcesta, Cram., single examples 
were taken, the latter has a slow, flapping flight. Of Bronia cleodora 
we took two; of E. leda a single female; of Pinacopteryx pigea nine, 
four males and five females ; of P. charina a solitary male. Congella 
is not the sort of locality that Teracolus especially delights in, and 
the genus was represented by but single male specimens of T. achine 
and T. omphale, and three males of T. speciosus. Of Terias regularis 
we took four males and two females. 
Of Papilio demodocus , which frequents high and open ground, we 
took one in the cultivated region above the woods, but of P. nireus, 
f. lyaeus , we got four males by taking advantage of its habit of not 
infrequently flying low and even settling on the ground. 
Of Zizera lysimon we took two ; of Tarucus telicanus five, of 
which at least four were females, one with the fore-wings injured 
