508 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1925 



The larvae of Triclema seem to be at first vegetarian, later feeding 

 on ant-tended coccids. From this it is but a step to the habits of 

 /Spalgis, Fe7iiseca, Gen/dus, and Aslauga^ the caterpillars of which 

 feed all their lives on ant-tended aphids or coccids, and to those of 

 Lachnocnema and MegalopaJpus, which feed all their lives on ant- 

 tended jassids and membracids. 



Besides the natural transition of lycienids into carnivores feed- 

 ing on ants and on ant-tended insects, there is the equally natural 

 transition, seen in Euliphyra., into a form Avhich induces ants to 

 feed it. 



There is no doubt that when the life liistories of our western and 

 southwestern and especially our tropical lycsenids have been worked 

 out other examples of carnivorous forms will come to light. 



