66 Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter’s Experiments on 
ah | nas 
a Obs. No, Name. Colour. bility.| + Remarks. 
258 | 530,597 | Diamphidia sp. nr. femor-| AA —— | Orange with black limbs, 
alis Gerst. like 188. Rather shy. 
Galerucidae. 
37 54 Megalognatha sp. AA |= ——j|Small, black and light 
brown; pregnant female 
has the swollen abdomen 
| bright yellow. 
54 | 102,202, | Diacantha conifera Fairm.| AA |——-—| Orange and black like a 
| 457, 535 Lycid. 
196 | 409, 418 | Diacantha sp. nr. conifera.| AA |———|Like above but paler 
| yellow. 
180 374 Diacantha petersi Bertol. A ———_) Gravid female with swollen 
| orange abdomen and 
| green elytra. 
17 | 153 Ootheca mutabilis Sahlb. | A — | Orange thorax, blue elytra. 
279 |. 586 Pxosoma ugandaensis Jac. | A ———/Small brown and _ black, 
gregarious, 
Cassididae. 
1 | 1,9, 154 | Cassida sp. AA —— | Orange with black spots. 
38 | 55, 59, | Aspidomorpha hybrida| A —— | Bronzy-green. 
| 426, 434, soh. 
512 | | 
251} 517 Aspidomorpha quadri- | A ——-~| Tinted with pink, and 
maculata Oliv. with small black spots. 
284 601 Aspidomorpha praccox Boh.| A ———| Dull crimson with black 
pattern. 
280 590 2 A ——— _ Fiery orange-pink, spotted 
with black. 
Family unknown. 
131 292 Larva. AA —— Dull pink, feeding gregari- 
; | | ously on a web. 
160 341 Larva. AA — | Large, dull black with 
orange head. 
General remarks on the CHRYSOMELIDAR and their allies. 
Thirty-one species were offered, including two larvae, 
and all save one were treated as more or less distasteful. 
Almost all of them were aposematic, and specimens of 
Apes families formed synaposematic groups, e.g. No. 
2 (Clytridae) and No. 72 (Cryptocephalidae) were black and 
scarlet; Nos. 188 and 216 (Eumolpidae), Nos. 3 and 258 
(Halticidae) were orange with black limbs; No. 195 (Mega- 
lopidae), No. 54 (Galerucidae) were of the Lycoid type of 
coloration; and one Chrysomelid (No. 48) was very like a 
“lady bird. ” The sole Sagrid tested was much like our 
ahhptish ‘ ploody-nosed beetle” in general appearance, 
habits, and conspicuousness. 
It is of interest that two species of larvae, both apose- 
matic, were also classed as distasteful. 
The Cassididae are particularly interesting, for some, such 
as our English common green species, must undoubtedly 
be classed as procryptic, yet the monkey had no doubt 
about the distastefulness of five species offered him on 
eleven occasions. 
