462 Mr. W. A. Lamborn on the 
quantity of food-insects for the larvae and find it necessary 
to enclose them, stem and all, in a wide-mouthed jar con- 
taining chloroform vapour, and then, when they are over- 
come, I can transfer them to the tube containing the 
caterpillars. 
“In nature the slow-moving Lycaenid larva must 
depend for its very existence on the fact that these insects 
are gregarious and if disturbed frequently re-assemble at 
the same spot. 
“The egg-masses of these Jassids are attached to plants 
in clusters, much like those of the Membracids, Leptocentrus 
altufrons, Walk. (p. 496), viz. in parallel rows often super- 
imposed so as to form oval masses; the Lycaenid larva 
does not interfere with these. 
“The ants in attendance on the Jassids frequently run 
over these caterpillars and stroke them with their antennae, 
but are not so attentive as they are to other Lycaenid 
larvae. I do not think that the ants obtain any secretions 
from the caterpillars, and I have not made out the existence 
of either dorsal gland or tubercles.” 
A further note from a letter dated Jan. 20, 1912, is as 
follows :— 
“Tf the caterpillar is on a broad surface it raises itself 
anteriorly when grasping a victim, but when on a narrow 
surface it drags the insect off its support by simply bending 
to one or other side.” 
A note dated Jan. 22, 1912, runs thus :— 
“T went out collecting again to-day and filled my tubes 
with so much material that, when I found the Jassids re- 
quired as food for my larvae, I was obliged to drop the 
6 obtained into a tube containing a stem bearing Stictococct 
with their attendant ants, C. buchneri alligatrix. When 
I reached home I found that these ants had attacked 2 of 
the Jassids and were running about with them in their 
jaws. I rescued them, but they were so badly injured 
that they soon died. One of the carnivorous larvae 
pupated late in the afternoon of Jan. 20, and the other is 
now in the resting condition, which is a relief, for I have 
had difficulty in obtaining enough of the food-insects, and, 
though I found other Jassids very closely allied, the larva 
refused them.” The collection contains 6 of the above- 
mentioned allagatrix with confirmatory data. 
More of the same species are referred to in the following 
notes written on Jan. 29, 1912. 
