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living imago of Callophrys avis, Clipmn., a somewhat belated 
specimen, emerged June 1st, 1910; the delay no doubt due to 
an unsuccessful attempt at forcing in February. 
Kare Insects from Portugal.— Dr. K. Jordan exhibited 
a live specimen ( d ) of a species of Tnixalis obtained by him 
at Portimao, South Portugal, and also showed some live larvae 
and the cocoon of a moth, Diplura loti. The larvae were found 
on Cistus in the Serra de Monchique, Algarve, South Portugal, 
on May 13th, and ai’e being fed upon Ileliantheinum. They 
resemble the caterpillar of Eriogaster lanestris so closely that a 
generic separation is hardly justified. 
A LyCAENID in attendance on an IIOMOPTERON. — Mr. 
Hamilton H. C. DaucEread the following notes communicated 
by Mr. J. C. Moulton. — “Some little time ago while working 
out some species of Lycaenidae, I noticed an interesting illustra¬ 
tion in Col. Bingham’s volume on this family in the ‘ Fauna 
of British India’ series (Vol. II, p. 287); this was an illus¬ 
tration of a Lycaenid— Allotinus horsjieldi, INIoore—attending an 
Aphide. The drawing is about a half larger than natural size, 
and seemed to me so clear, that I showed it to my two museum 
collectors — Dyaks—telling them to look out for an example 
of this in real life when collecting in the jungle. I further 
explained that the species figured was a common one in 
Sarawak, and that there was no reason why they should not 
be able to observe this phenomenon if they waited and watched 
the insect settle. For a month or more they were unsuccessful, 
although collecting four or five days a week. At last, on 
December 31st, 1909, one of the collectors, Bigi by name, 
came back triumphant with two examples of Allotinus 
nivalis, Druce (a smaller species than A. horsjieldi, but 
nearly allied), together ■with an Ilomopteron. He told me he 
had found the two butterflies hanging downwards from the 
underside of a thin twig of a ‘ kapor ’ tree, facing towards 
each other, some two inches apart; between them were two 
Homoptera ; and each butterfly was engaged in slowly stroking 
the Homopteron nearest it with its tongue. (He illustrated the 
action with his finger for my benefit.) The antennae were in 
an upright position as shown in Col. Bingham’s illustration. 
In reference to that picture it is interesting to note that the 
