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has suggested to Fuller the popular name of " Lictor Bag- 

 worm." It was discussed under this name in his pamphlet on 

 " Common Bagworms and Basket-worms " (Bull. XVI, Natal 

 Department of Agriculture, 1909). In the same publication 

 Fuller mentions and gives an illustration of another bagworm 

 which he designated as the " Thorn Bagworm," but this has 

 proved to be identical with the Lictor Bagworm now under 

 discussion, the former being merely a Lictor Bagworm which 

 had used the thorns of the native acacia in the formation of 

 its bag. During a visit to Ladysmithin September, 1915, the 

 writer found bags of this species on the thorn trees and also 

 on various fruit trees, the latter being apparently part of the 

 same infestation. While those on the fruit trees had made 

 their bags of sticks, those on the thorn trees had constructed 

 it either from thorns alone or partly from thorns and partly 

 from sticks, all gradations between the two types being 

 found. 



Apart from Mr. Fuller's paper noted above, I have found 

 only one other publication wherein considerable attention 

 has been paid to this species, viz. that by the Rev. H. A. 

 Junod ('Bull. Soc. Neuchatel Sc. Nat.,' xxvii, 1898-99, 

 p. 244), in which the following interesting and pioneer dis- 

 cussion is found : 



" La plus grande de toutes, c'est I'Enmeta cevvina {Drnce)z= 

 E. moddermanni (Heyl.). On la rencontre aiissi aux bord du 

 Zambeze et il est assez remarquable pour attirer I'attention. 



" Le fonrreau de la chenille se compose de petites branches reunies en 

 un faisceau cylindrique au milieu duquel la larve se tient. Ces 

 brancliettes sont, la plupart du temps, coupees par les mandibules de 

 I'animal a un rameau vivant de I'arbuste dit Nembe-Nembe (une sorte 

 de Mimosee du genre Cassia). Mais on en rencontre aussi sur 

 d'autres Mimosa a grandes epines blanches avec lesquelles les chenilles 

 construisent leur maison. Le diametre de cette construction pittor- 

 esque. que Ton voit se balancer aux branches, est de 2 a 2| cm. quand la 

 chenille a atteint toute sa grandeur. Auparavant, durant les premiers 

 temps de son existence, la chenille s'entoure de brindilles d'ecorce 

 qii'elle remplace pen a peu par des bouts d'herbe, ijuis par des 

 brancliettes toujours plus grandes. Son evolution doit durer plusieurs 



