580 Mr. F. P. Dodd on some Remarkable 
sun, and placed in a dark, stuffy and often deep cell, 
and there to stay for many weeks, or for months, accord- 
ing to the time of the year, amongst the bustling ants 
and their heaps of larvae, and to subsist upon the latter 
instead of the sweet (?) Jassidac—the grubs of the ants 
may be sweet, too, still my thirst for knowledge has not 
yet prompted me to settle the point by tasting them. 
No wonder the little creatures seem to preserve pleasant 
memories of the bright world from which they have been 
conveyed, and attempt to return, usually just after sunrise 
as the ants start out on their day’s foraging, but they 
are seized and hurried below again, their guardians know- 
ing what is best now for them, for outside they would 
assuredly perish. Or they may, owing to their stay and 
change in the cocoon, have forgotten their early days, and 
their visits to the light may be necessary and beneficial ; 
but, assuming that they have not forgotten, I cannot state 
how long they may be in becoming reconciled to such 
changed conditions, but it must be many days, for from 
one nest alone I obtained about two dozen small larvae 
one morning, which were emerging from the holes and 
wandering about, but the ants ‘seldom let them go far; 
these were many days older than those newly changed. 
One hot afternoon I came upon a nest, which was in 
the shade, where there was a young larva emerging and 
attempting to wander, in about fifteen minutes it came 
out four times, but was always captured before it had 
proceeded more than an inch or two. This was the only 
occasion upon which I saw a young larva out after the 
early morning. 
The moths lay great numbers of eggs, which are placed 
apart on their sides upon twigs and pieces of bark near 
where the ants pass, and generally not far from a com- 
inunity of the homoptera, which are usually in various 
stages of growth, from the smallest larva to the perfect 
insect ; freshly emerged caterpillars wend their way along 
the different branches which the ants traverse until they 
meet with any of these homoptera, large or small, when 
they crawl upon them. Upon small larvae I have 
frequently seen three young caterpillars holding on any- 
where, but not permanently attached, one or two of 
which would come off again. As a parasite increases 
in size it will almost invariably be found upon the host's 
abdomen (unless, as it sometimes happens, it is crowded 
