386. Mr: C, 0; an ttaraons Five Years’ Observations 
D. Nores on THE Larva or LyCAENESTHES LUNULATA 
TRIM., FEEDING ON BERLINIA SP. (LEGUMINOSAE). 
{The material consists of 6 g and 29 imagines, all of 
which emerged Jan. 8, 1918. | 
Dec, 29, 1917.—I got a solitary Plerocarpus larva to-day ; 
the trees are just beginning to flower. I also made a gather- 
ing from a plant that I cannot as yet identify. The young 
leaves when first they open are a light reddish-purple 
colour—a very common form of young foliage in this part 
of the world. As they get older the leaves get tinged 
with green and finally green. I have a series of larvae 
coloured appropriately to the different stages, some being 
pale reddish purple, some the same but tinged with green, 
and some are bright green, I rather think they are all one 
thing, for the shape i is rather characteristic, an unusually 
large onisciform type and rather flat, with gland and tubercles 
and attended by a Pheidole—vigorously attended. 
Jan. 12, 1918.—There is no doubt these larvae adapt 
their colour to the food-plant, some being green, some red. 
So also does one of the Loranthus larvae | Hpamera iasis, 
p. 372; also a Labiate-feeding Lycaenid larva—pp. 400-401]. 
Jan. 26, 1918.—The Berlinia series all emerged on the 
same day. I couldn’t separate the cases as they ‘ went 
up” before I could separate them in the tin, but Pll get 
more. 
Feb. 5, 1918.—In case I forget to mention it, Berlinia 
belongs to the Leguminosae, the species on W hich I found 
the Lycaenid being a large rain-forest tree typically, but 
here growing by the river-side. 
Aug. 11, 1918.—I have been looking for more larvae on 
Berlina, but the trees have no young foliage at present. 
The larvae do not eat the old hard leaves. There will be 
no difficulty, however, about getting them later on. 
| The trees were still the same on Aug. 25, when the state- 
ment was repeated that “ the larvae certainly vary from 
red to green.” | 
EK. THe Larva or LYCAENESTHES CRAWSHAYI BUTL., 
FEEDING ON Cassia ALATA L. (LEGUMINOSAE). 
[Material :—1 33 9 of L. crawshayi, emerging March 21-22. 
1917: also a dwarfed 2, probably of this species, with its 
pupa-case, from a larva found on the stem of Antiaris 
africana, at Agege.| 
