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to tlie top of the cage, or to the food-plant, by a thin web, 

 and remains suspended for about three days before the larval 

 skin is thrown off. This is accomplished by what he calls 

 a " writhing movement," which causes the skin to split, the 

 rent gradually extending until in about half an hour it is 

 got rid of. The chrysalis is of a bright green colour, and in 

 its dangling position resembles the seed-pod of a plant. He 

 tells me that its shape is difficult to describe, being angled 

 at the head and rounded at the other extremity, and it has 

 an indented " waist." The pupal stage lasts al)out three 

 weeks. So far as I can learn nothing has hitherto been 

 written about the early stages of Caligo menvnon though the 

 transformations of other species of the same genus have been 

 observed, and Mr. Kaye has published in our Transactions 

 for 1904 some useful sketches and a short note by Mr. J. Guppy 

 of the larva of C ilioneusf. saltus, Kaye. I thought, therefore, 

 these observations, although not written in scientific language 

 and made by a man with no entomological training, but 

 who, nevertheless, appears to be an intelligent observer, 

 might be worth putting on record. Those who have seen 

 illustrations and read descriptions of the early stages of 

 Caligos, whose history is known, will, I think, recognise that 

 these notes, written in homely words, agree very well with 

 previously published observations on other species belonging 

 to the same genus. (Trs. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1904, p. 226, 

 pi. xvii.) 



Erotylid beetles occupying the empty clay cells of 

 Aculeate Hymenoptera. — Prof. Poulton exhibited the 

 two nearly hemispherical clay cells in which Mr. C. 0. Far- 

 quharson had found the beetles Episcaphula interrupta, Lac, 

 as recorded in these Proceedings, 1913, p. cxxii. Both cells 

 were old and disused, and one contained two empty puparia, 

 probably of parasitic Diptcra. Both cells had been found on 

 the same stump, and it appeared evident that the beetles 

 had merely entered them, probably for hibernation or aestiva- 

 tion, as they might have done any other cavities. 



Ants attendant on the larvae of the Lycaenid — 

 Myrina silenus, F. — Prof. Poulton said that he had received 

 the following notes from Mr. CO. Farquharson : — 



