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spicule hairs are acquired, but meanwhile there is no doubt 

 that any small bird attempting to pick out the eggs from the 

 tuft which protects, them would first get a mouthful of some 

 thousands of these irritating little objects. 



The anal tuft of P. rhrysorrhoea differs, in that there is in 

 it a much larger number of smooth and inoffensive hairs, but 

 as if to make up for the greater leaven of innocence, the long 

 urticating hairs are covered with prickles over nearly their 

 entire length, whilst t he spicule hairs are lurking amongst 

 them just as in /'. similis. As one would expect, the analogous 

 structure in the male moth contains neither spiny hairs nor 

 spicules. 



To return to Aii<i/i/i>< infrncta, the urticating hairs of the 

 female are of quite different structure to those in the two 



j I x \ \ i 

 moths which I have described. They are of about three times 

 the thickness of those in similis and chrysorrhoea and they 

 appear to be covered with projections which may be described 

 as resembling saw-teeth regularly arranged along their entire 

 length. 



There are no spicules so far as 1 hive been able to discover. 

 I may say that I am going into the whole matter more 

 minutely and hope to have something more to say about it on 

 a future occasion. 



Till- 00OOONS 01 HIK All;i. \\ LA8I00AMPJD MOTH <'HRYSO- 



pbyohb vaiua, Walk. Professor Poulxok exhibited the 

 imagines and cocoons of C. oaria sent t<> him by Dr. <!. 1 >. B. 

 Carpenter from Damba Island, 20 miles Bouth-east of Kntebbe. 

 The larval skin was s-till projecting from some of the cocoons, 

 and showing its blue spots. The larvae had spun up November 

 12, 1911, and the moths emerged December 13. 



Dr. CaBPENTBB had written, April 18, 1912, from Bllgalla, 

 one of the Sessc Islands : — 



" The cocoons of Imago D 137 [Chrysopsyche i-nriu] arc par- 

 ticularly interesting. The larvae are gregarious, resting freely 

 exposed on the tree trunk by day, at sunset going up in a proces- 

 sion to feed. When full-grown they are chocolate brown with 

 blue patches and patches of glistening white short hairs — very 

 conspicuous. The cocoon, when finished, has a hole at one end, 



