on the Bionomics of Southern Nigerian Insects. 393 
The discovery of the pupae in the Camponotus nest was 
at once brought before the Entomological Society (Pro- 
ceedings, 1917, p. Ixi, and 1918, p. Ixxix, where the first 
determination of the Lycaenid as parsimon F. was corrected 
to phasma Butl. 
The male armature of the Catochrysops has been examined 
by Dr. T. A. Chapman, F.R.S., and Mr. Bethune-Baker, 
who agree that the species is certainly phasma Butl. For 
a description of the larva and pupa by Dr. Chapman 
see pp. 490-93. | 
Government Farm, Agege. 
Sept. 10, 1917.—I have had a glorious find to-day. I 
set some men to clear the site of new labourers’ lines. I 
went to see the progress of the work just as they were 
levelling what I took to be an old ant-hill (Termitary). 
The species of Termite is one that fastens on to large bush 
[forest] stumps and gradually converts them into a carton 
and mud heap, mainly carton, unlike 7’. bellicosus Smeathm., 
our commonest form, whose hill is entirely of clay. The 
colony was a feeble one, the material, I suppose, being more 
or less exhausted. But what I just arrived in time to see 
was, that in the abandoned carton portion Camponotus 
maculatus had established themselves. A fork thrust had 
just fetched out a mass of the nest, and amongst the débris 
I saw a number of pale-brown pupae, obviously Lepi- 
dopterous. I must make it clear that this fork-thrust 
went well below the ground-level, so that these pupae— 
and I found many more 7 situ in the mass—were actually 
subterranean, and they are Lycaenid pupae. I have seen 
the butterfly, for two or three emerged on the spot, a large 
blue form with spotted undersides and slight tails. The 
pupae were moth-pupa-like in colour, though rather pale 
or straw-coloured. I haven’t counted, but I think I must 
have thirty of them, and not a few were accidentally de- 
stroyed. They all look as if they would emerge together. 
And I found two larvae about to pupate! They are of 
almost wasp-grub appearance, their legs and pro-legs being 
greatly reduced. I don’t think they have either gland or 
tubercles. They had obviously stopped: feeding, and it 
was useless to try them on the only likely-looking stuff 
there was, and that was Termite “ bread.”” The nest had 
to be destroyed—it was ruined really before I arrived—but 
I think I'll be able to find others. 
