the Relative Edibility of Insects. 7 
Remarks on the HoMopTERA. 
Although two species were extremely procryptic, all were 
treated as distasteful. 
General remarks on the HEMIPTERA. 
It is seen that the verdict upon the group as a whole 
is decidedly unfavourable, although quite a number are 
very definitely procryptic. The powerful, and to man, 
unpleasant odour does not, however, seem to be a cause 
‘of distastefulness, seeing that the very malodorous large 
Coreid, No. 42, seemed to be a pleasant article of food, 
although M. seemed to fear its powerful rostrum. 
SECTION III. 
FurTHER EXPERIMENTS WITH A CERCOPITHECUS ON 
RELATIVE EpIBILITy oF INSECTS. 
_ At the beginning of February, 1917, the young male 
monkey which I had borrowed for the purpose of experi- 
ment was reclaimed by his master and, much to my regret, 
I lost him. There was, however, another monkey in the 
station, and I continued the taste-experiments with hin. 
He also was a young male of the same age, and, so far as 
I could tell, of the same species of Cercopithecus ; he was 
of the common grey-green type with black hands and 
face and dull whitish band across the forehead. His 
temperament, however, was different from that of M,,— 
he was quieter and not so boisterous, and at first not 
nearly so ready to eat insects. His owner, who had kept 
him from babyhood, had never given him insects to eat 
and, as he had always been kept tied up (when I experi- 
mented with him he was on the upper balcony of a house), | 
he had probably not had much, if anything, in the way 
of insect food. 
His manners were somewhat different from those of Mj. 
Sometimes when dealing with a very objectionable insect 
that M, would have rubbed violently on the ground, M, 
would leap up in the air and come down heavily with one 
hand on the insect, which would thus be disabled. 
Owing to the fact that M, was not under my control I 
was not able to supervise his feeding entirely, as I had done 
with M,, so that, except for the fact that he soon showed 
whether or not he was hungry for insects, I could not tell in 
what state he was at the commencement of an experiment. 
