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them when the butterflies emerge, but I believe they will 
turn out to be Spalgis lemolea, H. H. Druce, for I have seen 
several of these near the tree in the clearing, and have not 
made out why they come there in the face of a strong breeze 
which is now blowing almost constantly.” 
“* Oct. 3rd. 
“ All the larvae were found among Coccids on a shrub in 
Oni clearing. I will send Coccids. Each larva bore a ccver- 
ing of grey material, which looked to me as if composed of 
east skins of Coccids; and I think they must have eaten 
these or their products, for they did not eat leaves. I am 
told that the plant they were on is a species of Croton, but I 
rather doubt it. The larvae were all found on the under side 
of leaves, and always among the Coccids.”’ 
Rey. 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 sent 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 
‘ woolly’ excretion of a Coccid, but also contains the remains 
of an insect which I regard as a Coccid—chiefly on account 
of the short antennal joints, short tibia and single-jointed 
claw.” 
Prof. R. Newstead, who has examined Mr. Bagnall’s pre- 
parations, wrote on Jan. 10, 1912— 
“The remains in part (portions of detached legs and 
antennae) are undoubtedly those of a species of Coccidae 
belonging, I believe, to the Dactyloprvinae and nearly related to 
one of the following genera: Dactylopius, Targ., Pseudococcus, 
Sign., or Hriococcus, Targ. The numerous long hairs attached 
to the fragments of skin are, however, quite unlike those of 
any species of Coccid with which I am familiar ; indeed, they 
