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2. Eumeta spec. The very common and well known bag- 

 worms of this genus and probably of the species variegata Sn. 

 were forwarded from the same place. They were reported to 

 eat only the bark of the twigs ; and spécimens of the latter to 

 which the insects were still attached showed their manner of 

 opération. At mimerons places the bark was entirely gnawed off. 



It is a well known tact that the adnlt females of this group, 

 which are wingless and nearly feetless, after the pupation do not 

 leave the larval case, and after copulation with the winged maies, 

 lay their eggs in the same. The young caterpillars, when esca- 

 ping, are already provided with a case, which probably is con- 

 structed from the silky tissne with which the inside of the 

 maternai case is clad. They bear it quite erect and when it is 

 taken off, which is very easily doue, they keep their feetless 

 abdomen in the same position, thus resembling tiny clowns 

 walking on their hands. 



IV. K1KX1A ELAST1CA. 



Glyphodes unionalis, Huebn. The caterpillars of this rather 

 common Pyralid moth proved to be very destructive to Kikxia- 

 trees in the Agricultural Gardens hère ; they also were received 

 from an estate in Bantam (West-Java). Young trees were entirely 

 defoliated and even the shoots and the green tops of the twigs 

 were eaten. 



The caterpillar is green, and in the full-grown state lias a 

 length of 35 mM. As in most Pyralid larvœ, the body is covered 

 with many blackish brown chitinous specks, which in the présent 

 species are arranged as follows : on the first segment two elongated 

 specks, transversely placed ; on the second two circulai- specks, 

 on the third four specks, in a transverse line; on the segments 

 4—11 six specks forming two laterally placed triangles ; on the 

 twelfth segment four specks in a transverse line; on the last 

 segment two yellowish brown plates. 



V. HEVEA BRASILIENSIS. 



1. Phytoscapha triangularis, Oliv. and. 



2. Hypomeces squamosus, F. 



