NOTES. ay 
pain. Reduviids are predaceous on other insects, and the 
action of this one was no doubt reflex on finding itself confined. 
An immature tick, genus Rhipicephalus, had attached itself 
in the writer’s armpit. The point of attachment remained 
sore to the touch for several weeks after the removal of the 
tick, but this was no doubt due to a piece of flesh having been 
removed with the tick. 
A nymphal Locustid of the family Stenopelmatine lives 
within a retreat formed at the apex of a tea leaf. Four cuts 
divide the tip of the leaf into three sections, and the lateral 
pieces are folded together to form the retreat. In the average 
case the cuts are more or less symmetrically arranged with 
regard to the midrib, but specimens in which the insect has 
evidently lost its bearings are not uncommon. 
The tenant is of a shining dark brown colour dorsally, 
yellowish-white ventrally. They are splendid jumpers, and 
one has to be very quick to capture theni. 
Many of such leaves bear small punctures usually arranged 
in two, more or less, parallel rows. 
Of Dynastides, Sharp says (Insects, Pt. IT., p. 199): “‘ Many 
Dynastides possess organs of stridulation, consisting of lines 
of sculpture placed so as to form one or two bands on the 
middle of the propygidium, and brought into play by being 
rubbed by the extremities of the wing cases.” 
In the writer’s opinion there does not seem to be any such 
arrangement in Xylotrwpes gideon. On the other hand, there 
is a row of small teeth on the under side of the proximal half 
of the costa of the wing, and this is probably part of the 
sound-producing structure, resting as it does on the abdomen. 
The production of sound by the Hawk moths seems to the 
writer to require further investigation. 
Recently I took resting on the stem of a palm what was 
probably a species of Acherontia ; it was too much rubbed for 
detailed comparison with named specimens. 
