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Note on the Life-history o/Chlorolestes ccmspicua. By K. H. BARNARD, 

 M.A., F.L.S., Assistant, Director. 



ALTHOUGH this species is common near the mountain streams on 

 Table Mountain and the Hottentots Holland Mountains, I have only 

 once observed the method of oviposition, namely in one of the well- 

 wooded kloofs in the latter mountains. The female was seen (March, 

 1919) puncturing the young green shoots of the trees (Ilex capensis) 

 overhangi ny and about five feet above the stream. 



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As a rule about five or six punctures are made at intervals of one- 

 eighth of an inch or so along the twig, but without any great regularity. 

 These punctures cause slight gall-like swellings, and the old ones are 



