370 Mr. C. O. Ran Mersonts Five Years’ Observations 
to Lamborn’s delightful “ gall”? LA. maesa]. It is very simi- 
lar in “ poise” and shape. The form with the most markedly 
“electric” [pp. 376-77] larva (which is a beautiful “ Blue” 
with long tails [Tanuwetheira timon]) has also pupated. I[ 
have put the other in spirit. I bred out an imago before 
froma pupa. I have lots of pupae of a third and apparently 
common form [A. paneperata]. I think I sent it before 
along with one which I noted as having an exactly simi- 
larly shaped pupa, but more “ decorated ” [A. iulus]. For 
some reason I haven’t got any of the latter just now. The 
pink forms [#. iasis| are beginning to appear now that the 
flowers are beginning to show more colour though still 
unopened, 
I cannot help thinking that the Loranthus series really 
are avoided by ants. I am not saying this simply because 
I wish to find a meaning for the “ electric’ sensation 
[see p. 376]. I noted it before I knew of that. There are 
Pheidole on the tree, but they are in attendance on scales 
and are partly, I think, attracted by the nectaries of the 
Funtumia flowers. Further, I took a lot of the same 
Pheidole from Cassia alata, where they are in attendance on 
a Jassid, and put them into the Argiolaus box, but they took 
no notice of the larvae. Two of the species have tubercles. 
I cannot find them on the species a camouflage [2. farqu- 
harsoni|. But I cannot find glands on any of them. 
Jan. 8, 1918.—None of the new Argiolaus have emerged 
as yet, but I’ve a nice group of them and next mail may 
bring you some good things. 
Jan. 12, 1918.—I am glad to say that I am in a position 
to make one emendation, and that is that there are more 
than two Argiolaus on the Loranthus. I know of Five on the 
particular Loranthus on my most particular Puntumia, and 
in addition it is practically certain that the famous “ gall ” 
|maesa| and the other which I sent home as “* gall affinis ” 
[|alcabiades|—I haven't the names handy at present, but 
you sent me them before—almost certainly feed on the 
same species, though, as I told you in my last letter, the 
“gall”? and the other one elect to live up a very tall tree, 
much beyond my reach—the Alstonia frequented by 
Cremastogaster, Hewitsona and the others. The “ gall” 
and one of my Funtumia-Loranthus. forms live on the 
Hewitsonia-Endomychid-Cremastogaster-tree at Agege, which 
bears a very closely related Loranthus with purple red-tipped 
corollas instead of yellow and red-tipped, which by the 
