392. Mr. C..0. Fardffarson'’s Five Years’ Observations 
seemed to coincide with resting—probably from repletion 
—periods. I succeeded, however, in getting several larvae 
on the point of pupation and have examined the frass 
microscopically. There could be no doubt about the 
presence of insect remains in it. I will send some in due 
course for your confirmation. 
I found in one pellet a mass of asci with spores (a type 
with a mucilaginous covering), but I couldn’t find any 
perithecium, and I cannot suggest as yet what the fungus 
may be or how it came to be there. It must, I think, have 
spored before leaving the caterpillar’s body, for I put the 
larvae when found ito perfectly dry new pill-boxes, and 
the pellets are so small and would have dried so quickly 
that I can hardly believe the fungus spored after extrusion 
of the pellet. I don’t think there can be any doubt but 
that the larvae do actually eat the Membracids, which is 
rather low down. But at the same time they feed directly 
on the secretions of the nymphs. I am still puzzled as to 
what they or the ants get from the mature Membracids. 
Jan. 26, 1918.—I got my Membracid-eater and secretion- 
drinker eating Jassids, as Lamborn did, on Cassia alata, 
and send one. 
H. THE MATURE LaRvA AND Pupa oF CATOCHRYSOPS 
PHASMA BUTL., FROM THE SUBTERRANEAN NEST OF 
THE ANT CAMPONOTUS MACULATUS F., VAR. MELANO- 
CNEMIS SANTSCHI: ITS YOUNG LARVA FEEDING, WITH 
THAT OF ANOTHER LYCAENID (PROBABLY EXHIBITING 
INDIVIDUAL COLOUR-ADJUSTMENT), ON THE FLOWERS 
OF SOLENOSTEMON OCYMOIDES ScHuM. AND THONN. 
(LABIATAE). 
[Material :—21 3 and 18 2 C. phasma, emerging Sept. 
12-25, 1917, from pupae found Sept. 10 in débris of the 
ants’ nest at Agege, 33 with precise pupa-cases. Emer- 
gence takes place at about 8.0 a.m. or earlier, as shown by 
the following data :—about 7.0 a.m.—1 9; about 7.15—1 9; 
before 8.0—3 $3 9; about 8.0—2 339. With these, many 
pupae and two larvae in spirit taken at Agege with the 
pupae from which the imagines emerged; also Termites 
of three different genera (see p. 416) from the Termitarium 
in disused parts of which the Camponotus had made its 
nest. Also, from Moor Plantation, 3 2 imagines of C. 
phasma, ovipositing on flowers of Solenostemon, Aug. 5, 
1918, and (two on the same plant), Aug. 11. 
