the Relative Edibility of Insects. 9 
reddish tegmina, and antennae ringed alternately 
black and orange. I put this down in front of M., 
who just looked at it and appeared to take no more 
notice. 
Obs. 8. Sp—.—I then took out another large 
Acridian, brown, procryptic. M. at once leapt up 
and seized it and ate it with extreme haste. After- 
wards he went back to 5, smelt and touched it, but 
did not even taste it. 
(Note.—This exemplifies extremely well the distaste- 
fulness of 5.) 
Obs. 9. Sp. 1.—Cassida sp. This was offered, but 
M. took absolutely no notice of it. 
Obs. 10. Sp. 3.—Halticid, Physodactyla gerstaeckert. 
This beetle was treated like the last. 
(Note—This exemplifies that a very distasteful 
insect may be eaten when the monkey is extremely 
hungry, see Obs. 1 and 3.) 
Obs. 11. Sp. 6.—Meloid, Coryna dorsalis Gerst. : 
a very common, medium-sized, large-bodied beetle, 
black with conspicuous light yellow marks on elytra, 
was absolutely ignored after a first glance. 
Obs. 12. Sp. 7.—Meloid, Mylabris tristigma Gerst. 
var.: a common large black and orange beetle, with 
habits (like 6) typically aposematic, feeding freely 
exposed on flowers. M. would not even taste this, 
nor did he touch it. 
Obs. 13. Sp.—.—An Acridian, of about the same 
size as 6, procryptic, was at once devoured with great 
gusto. 
Series C. Dec. 29.—At about 5 p.m. M. had some banana, 
and half an hour afterwards— 
Obs. 14. Sp. 8.—Mutillid: a medium-sized 2 of a 
Mutilla not in the British Museum, black all over, 
with white abdominal spots. This was allowed to run 
on the ground, and M. pounced on it and hurriedly 
rubbed it on the ground in the manner previously 
described, eventually seizing it and crunching it up 
very quickly. I think his lips and one hand got 
stung. 
Obs. 15. Sp. 9.—Another, smaller Mutillid was 
then put down, but M. would not have anything to 
do with it. 
(Note——Obs. 14 was the first occasion on which a 
