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Heterocera. 
Lefroy records carnivorous habits and cannibalism in the 
larvae of moths (J.B.N.H.S., XVIII, pp. 696-7). The coccidipha- 
gous habits of Eublemma larvae, which are mentioned in this noteg 
have also been recorded in J.B.N.H.S., XIII, by Dudgeon, 
(pp. 379-380), and Green (p. 538). 
The aerial dissemination of the larvae of a wingless moth is 
noted by Aitken (J.B.N.H.S., V, p. 421). 
Troup records a plague of the web-spinning caterpillars of 
Naxa textilis var. hugeli on the Silang tree, Olea fragrans 
(J.B.N.H.S., XII, pp. 775-6). 
Certain Drosera-eating larvae and their habits are described 
by Fletcher (Spolia Zeylanica, V, pp. 26-27, figs. 3-7 and pp. 95-97). 
The larval habits of the Tineid moth Melasina energa form 
the subject of a note by Fryer (Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1913, 
pp. 420-422, pl. xxi). 
Green gives an account of the curious Scolopendriform cater- 
pillar of Homodes fulva (Spolia Zeylanica, VII, pp. 166-7, figs. 8a-b), 
of a Geometrid caterpillar (Comtboena biplagiata=Uliocnemts cas- 
sidara) which disguises itself by attaching small pieces of leaves 
and withered flowers to paired fleshy processes of the body (Spolia 
Zeylanica, 1, p.74), and of the efficacy of the hair of a small Litho- 
siid caterpillar as a protection against ants (Spolia Zeylanica, VI, 
p. 135). Wise states that the hair which Nefita conferta works 
into its cocoon serves the same purpose, and calls attention to the 
male-attracting power possessed by females of this species 
(J.B.N.H.S., 11, pp. 54-5). Aitken, however, shows that the hair 
of the larvae of Nepita conferta does not protect them against 
toads (J.B.N.H.S., XI, pp. 337-8). 
The method by which certain Saturniidae cut their way out 
of their cocoons is described by Kettlewell (J.B.N.H.S., XVII, 
pp. 541-2). 
Meyrick (Ent. Mo. Mag. [2], XXV, p. 220) records Fletcher’s 
discovery of a moth, to which he gives the name Brachmia xero- 
phaga, symbiotic with Stegodyphus at Guindy near Madras. I have 
examined specimens of the spider with which it was found, and 
have identified them as Stegodyphus sarasinorum. More recently I 
have myself obtained the same species of moth from nests of the 
same species of spider near Balugaon in Orissa. All the moths I saw 
were on the outside of the nest, but the caterpillars were inside. 
Fletcher mentions the occurrence of several specimens of 
“Ophideres fullonica and Cephonodes hylas at sea (Spolia Zeylantca, 
III, p. 202). He also contributes a note on the significance of the 
stridulation of the Death’s Head Moth (Spolia Zeylanica, IV, 
pp. 179-180).! 
L See also Rutherford, Spolia Zeylanica, X, pp. 77-78. For collected obser- 
vations on the stridulation of European Death's Head Moths see Tutt ‘ British 
Lepidoptera,’ 1V, pp. 406-8 and 447 (larva), 432 (pupa) and 444-453 (imago). 
According to a notice long exhibited in the insect gallery of the Indian Museum 
