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rather douht it. The larvae were all found on the under side 

 of leaves, and always among the Coccids." 



Rev. A. C. Good, in the letter referred to above, described 

 these Lycaenid larvae as follows : "The body was all covered 

 over with a whitish substance, not a part of the body, and 

 which I took to be the remains of plant-lice with which the 

 underside of the leaves on which the larvae were found 

 abounded. I think that these caterpillars must have fed 

 upon these white plant-lice, for I could not detect that they 

 had eaten the leaves" (& c. p. 202). 



One of the larval skins scut by Mr, Lamborn has been 

 examined by Mr. R. 8. BagnalL who finds that the grey 

 material is " mostly composed of what I presume to be the 

 1 woolly ' excretion of a Coccid, but also contains the remains 

 of an insect which 1 regard as a Coccid — chiefly on account 

 of the short antenna! joints, Bhort tibia and single-jointed 



claw."' 



Prof. R. Newstead, who has examined Mr. Bagnall's pre- 

 parations, wrote on Jan. 1". 1912 — 



"The remains in part (portions of detached tegs and 

 antennae i are undoubtedly those of a species of Coccidae 

 belonging, I believe, to the Daotylopiiinaa and nearly related to 

 one of the following genera D "■' lopius, Targ., Pseudococeus, 



Sign., or I The numerous long hairs attached 



to the fragments of skin are. however, quite unlike th< 



any specie- of Coccid with which 1 am familiar; indeed, they 



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seem to be quite unique, and may belong to a totally different 



insect." 



Dr. BL. Jordan remarked thai it was quite surprising that 

 Prof . Foulton's correspondents in Uganda got so many speci- 

 mens of Pseudacraea while thai genus is generally scantily 

 represented by individuals in West African collections. He 

 further observed that among the specimens exhibited were 

 some intermediates, which supported his contention that 

 obscura, terra and others are only forms of one species. 



