MISCELLANEA. 
INSECTS. 
NOTES ON THE LIFE History OF Aphiochaeta ferruginea, 
MIHI.—In the Records of the Indian Museum for February, 1912, I 
published a description of the above Phorid, and stated that two 
generations had been bred by me from a dead lizard, but that the 
notes made at the time had been mislaid. 
After long-continued search these have at last been found and 
the present short report embodies them. 
The lizard (Calotes versicolor, Daud.) was put alive into an 
ordinary pickle jar, the cork fitted so as to allow air to enter. 
I had noticed two or three small flies about the jar for a 
couple of days before the lizard died, but cannot be sure they were 
the same species. The lizard died, to the best of my recollection, 
after two days’ incarceration, and the young larvae were noticed 
the next day, when they were nearly a quarter of an inch long, so 
either the eggs must have been laid in the living lizard or they 
must have hatched and grown to that size in twenty-four hours. 
The dead lizard was removed and a little cooked rice and a 
piece of roast duck put in. 
The larvae pupated in about four or five days, coming to the 
top of the jar outside (the jar was left partly open), all round the 
edge of the cover.. I picked them off and placed them in a glass- 
topped box. Practically all the flies emerged on one day, about a 
week after pupating. 
The imagos had been out about five days, and on Sunday 
morning (August 4th, 1907) there were no signs of larvae. On 
Sunday evening I put in a small piece of roast duck, and on 
Tuesday morning (6th) some young larvae nearly one-fifth of an 
inch long were seen. About a hundred appeared, crawling with 
ease up the glass. They had two black hooks on the under surface 
of the head, resembling the tusks of a walrus. On Sunday 
the 11th four or five pupated; on Monday (12th) I draped up the 
top of.the box and gave them no more food; six or eight more 
pupating the same day. On Tuesday (13th) three flies were found 
by 6 P.M., a number more pupating on Wednesday. Two days 
afterwards (16th) nearly all (150) pupated, but some young larvae 
(about a dozen) still remained This may have been due to 
restricted growth through being crowded out for want of food, as 
all that was left of the latter was liquid and bad smelling. 
Possibly a later emergence from the egg may have caused the 
delay in their development. The pupae were small, yellow and 
