74 Dr. G. D. H. Carpenter’s Experiments on 
s : Ndi- 
ae Obs. No, | Name, Colour. me temarks. 
— | — a = “ s+ Saini 
Lygaeidae. 
65 | 126,128 Lygaeus sp., not in Br.| AA | —— | Black and red. 
Mus. 
189 | 391,399, Probably same as 65. AA + Larvae; black and orange, 
104 : congregated. 
101 213 Lygaeus militaris ¥. AA = Rose and grey. 
191 | 395,403) Lygaeus festivus Thunb, AA ee Black and rose. 
87 178, 615 | Oncopeltus famelicus ¥. AA — Black and orange larvae, 
| congregated. 
‘ 
Remarks on the LYGAEIDAE. 
All the species tested were aposematic and treated as 
distasteful. But it is curious that the congregated larvae 
of No. 65 (189) were apparently not distasteful, though 
the larvae of 87 were unpalatable (Obs. 615). 
Pyrrhocoridae. 
118 , 256,258 Dysdercus superstitiosus Y, AA + Rose and grey, congre- 
| | gated together. 
222 463, 584 | Roscius illustris Gerst. AA | — | Large, black with orange 
| spots, red head. Highly 
conspicuous, 
Remarks on the PyRRHOCORIDAE. 
Both species offered were treated as distasteful. 
Reduviidae, 
31 41°} ? A | + | Slender, black speckled 
with yellow, 
39 56 ? A + Grey with tips of tegmina 
reddish. 
268 560 ? Ie | (3) Powerful black apterous 
species. 
Family not known, | 
28 38 ? AA | + |A solid rose-pink, ap- 
terous specimen found 
on dead tree. ? young 
of 162. 
162 344 7 12 + Lose-pink body concealed 
by grey tegmina, 
205.) 435 | ? A + | Possibly same as 44 (Pen- 
tatomid). 
| | Homoptera. 
Fulgoridae. - 
200 420 Pyrops marginatus Westw.| PP = Grey, with long snout, 
very procryptic. 
239 493 | Hypselometopum  moro-| PP -| — |The waxy abdomen par- 
| | sum Westw. ticularly attracted M.'s 
attention. 
| | Cercopidae. : 
207 438, 534, | Triecophora conspicua | AA —— | Iixtremely conspicuous. 
: | 569 Dist. | 
= Z 
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