474 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Trichograrama is the smallest and most simple form of the 

 Chalcidiae ; it is parasitic on the earliest stale of Lepidoptera, 

 and thus its life commences from an egg within an egg, and 

 a little grub emerging from the included egg appropriates the 

 contents of the including egg, which in that case produces a 

 fly instead of the usual grub. 



The MyinidaB are next to the Trichogrammidae in sraallness 

 of size ; some of them appropriate Aphides internally : when 

 such is the case the latter assume a deep black hue, and the 

 wholly yellow Myina flava is a parasite of Callipterus annu- 

 latus and of C. Coryli. 



Francis Walker. 



Notes on Southern Indian Lepidoptera. 

 By William Watkins. 



(Continued from p. 4i8.) 



July was a glorious month : the weather was fine, with 

 occasional showers, that greatly tended to increase the 

 already prolific field of Lepidoptera. Whilst beating for 

 larvae on the 1st of the month I was astonished to see roll 

 into ray net Limacodes Testudo ; after which I got it com- 

 monly. If my recollection serves me rightly its food-plant at 

 home is oak ; however, it is decidedly not oak in this place, 

 as I believe (with the exception of one tree at Coonoor and 

 one at Bangalore) there is no oak growing in Southern India ; 

 these of course have been cultivated. On the same day on 

 my way home I beat out Erastria venustula : the same 

 applies to its food-plant as to that of Testudo, for I am con- 

 vinced that there is no beech growing on the Neilgherry 

 hills ; it has found something else to feed upon, as I have 

 caught it repeatedly since. The whole of the species 

 enumerated for May occurred throughout the month, together 

 with Macroglossa Stellatarum (common) and Pyrarga 

 Egeria. In August, Chortobius Davus and Satyrus Semele 

 put in an appearance; but by far the most interesting occu- 

 pation this month was the collecting and observing the 

 numerous species of Crambites and Tortrices, which were 

 swarming. 1 do not profess to have ever known much about 



